Course Details

Company Practice Psychology

Academic Year 2025/26

NZB014 course is part of 9 study plans

​ NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-SIM Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-SIK Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-MI Summer Semester 1st year

​ NPC-GK Summer Semester 2nd year

​ NPA-SIS Winter Semester 2nd year

​ NPC-SIR Winter Semester 2nd year

​ NPC-SIS Winter Semester 2nd year

​ NKC-SIS Winter Semester 2nd 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.

Credits

2 credits

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

PhDr. Ivana Poledňová, CSc.

Institute

Institute of Social Sciences

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit

Entry Knowledge

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.

Aims

Orientation in an interpersonal communication (especially considering managment position), abilities in aplication knowledge and soft-skills in private and in profession life.
Student will be able to have insight on the human resource management problems.

Basic Literature

Rothmann, S. & Cooper, C. (2022). Work and Organizational Psychology. Taylor & Francis.  (en)
M. W. Eysenck, & M. T. Keane, Cognitive psychology: A student’s handbook (8th ed.). Taylor & Francis Group. (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289576

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.