Course Details

Company Practice Psychology

Academic Year 2023/24

NZB014-A course is part of 2 study plans

NPC-ARS / ARA Summer Semester 1st year

NPC-ARS / ARP Summer Semester 1st year

The subject offer the basic orientation in practical soft skills used in companies, it raises the finding employment ability and graduate competitiveness. The subject continuously introduces to students the soft skills that lead the graduate effectively to carrier and personality growth.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

Orientation in an interpersonal communication (especially considering managment position), abilities in aplication knowledge and soft-skills in private and in profession life.

Knowledge

Student will be able to have insight on the human resource management problems.

Syllabus

1. Soft – skills, definition, use in practice, importance for competitiveness. Innovation and creativity, its support for own efficiency and creative activity increasing.
2. Assertiveness and attitude to others, assertiveness as relationships change possibility and cooperation with others, self – evaluation, respect to own personality, to others.
3. Communication, empathy, nonverbal reading, communication faults.
4. Dealing with problem communication partner types, its identification and its specific in communication.
5. Conflict and negotiation, dealing strategy considering the aim of dealing.
6. Own work results presentation to professional and general public. Work with public.
7. Social groups versus team, dynamics and team parts.
8. Working environment and related psychological aspects. Work environmental hygiene.
9. Problem dealing at work. Identification and solving for civil engineering environment.
10. Procrastination and Self – management as personality efficiency rising.
11. 4. and 5. generation time – management, efficiency a priority.
12. Stress, its physiology and relax techniques. Stress reduce.
13. Job interview, curriculum vitae and cover leter.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge from psychology and sociology from secondary school (from subjects as Civics or Social sciences). Basic orientation in terminology from general psychology, sociology and social groups.

Language of instruction

English

Credits

2 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Soft – skills, definition, use in practice, importance for competitiveness. Innovation and creativity, its support for own efficiency and creative activity increasing. 2. Assertiveness and attitude to others, assertiveness as relationships change possibility and cooperation with others, self – evaluation, respect to own personality, to others. 3. Communication, empathy, nonverbal reading, communication faults. 4. Dealing with problem communication partner types, its identification and its specific in communication. 5. Conflict and negotiation, dealing strategy considering the aim of dealing. 6. Own work results presentation to professional and general public. Work with public. 7. Social groups versus team, dynamics and team parts. 8. Working environment and related psychological aspects. Work environmental hygiene. 9. Problem dealing at work. Identification and solving for civil engineering environment. 10. Procrastination and Self – management as personality efficiency rising. 11. 4. and 5. generation time – management, efficiency a priority. 12. Stress, its physiology and relax techniques. Stress reduce. 13. Job interview, curriculum vitae and cover leter.