Intervention in groups and organizations

Course Code: PMS106 • Study year: I • Academic Year: 2024-2025
Domain: Social work - Masters • Field of study: Design and management of social and health services
Type of course: Compulsory
Language of instruction: English
Erasmus Language of instruction: English
Name of lecturer: Sebastian Claudiu Stefani
Seminar tutor: Sebastian Claudiu Stefani
Form of education Full-time
Form of instruction: Class
Number of teaching hours per semester: 28
Number of teaching hours per week: 2
Semester: Summer
Form of receiving a credit for a course: Grade
Number of ECTS credits allocated 6

Course aims:

Knowledge by students of the main sociological and socio-psychological foundations of intervention in groups and organizations;
Training the skills of designing and implementing an intervention;
Developing an open and innovative attitude towards social change through intervention;

Course Entry Requirements:

none

Course contents:

Social change in groups and organizations
Sociological intervention
Psycho-sociological intervention
Intervention design
Identifying problems through methods and techniques specific to sociology and psycho-sociology
Identifying the solution and formulating intervention hypotheses
Implementing an intervention
Evaluation of the intervention
Deontology of intervention in groups and organizations
Good practices in group and organizational interventions

Teaching methods:

Lecture, conversation, examples

Learning outcomes:

Identification, structuring and restructuring of solution classes for optimal resource management
Identifying the organizational needs of human resources
Applying methods, techniques, procedures and tools appropriate to the research of human resources development and management issues
Identification and description of concepts, methodologies and procedures specific to policies, programs and projects in the field in the field of human resources development and management issues

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Written exam and project

Recommended reading:

Cristea, D, Intervenție și schimbare organizatională,, Trei, Alba Iulia, 2015, 300.
Neculau Adrian, Analiza şi intervenţia în grupuri şi organizaţii, Polirom, Ia;i, 2001, 345.
Pascaru Mihai, Efectul Pygmalion. Sinteze de psihologie socială aplicată, Eikon, Cluj napoca, 2012, 320.