Syllabus for
Master of Science (Psychology-Human Resource Development and Management)
Academic Year  (2023)

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Course description: This course will introduce students to the domain of academic writing and its intricacies. Every student regardless of his or her area of interest will be made to use an academic style of writing at different levels and at various points in time. This course will, therefore, seek to impart such knowledge about the styles of writing used in the current academic scenario. It will provide students with opportunities in the classroom setting to practice such styles, both individually and in collaboration with others. In doing so, it will allow students to delve deeper into the scientific literature, while also preparing them for efforts in research. The insights gained from such a course can be used by students as a foundation in their specialized line of work.

Course objectives:

• To help the learner gain familiarity with different academic writing styles used in contemporary scientific journals.
• To gain a better understanding of in-text and reference citations, APA formatting.
• To introduce the concept of plagiarism and its types to avoid such academic forgery. 

Course Description: This course is an introduction to organizational behaviour.  The course covers theories and research done in the area of organizational behaviour. It attempts to familiarize students with a micro and macro-level understanding of the organisation and its effect on behaviour, interaction patterns, social and group-level dynamics, emotions and cognitive functioning of units in the organization. However, the psychological understanding (social, cultural and organizational) of these facets shall be focussed on in order to make it congruent with the philosophy of this course. Diverse theories and case studies are included in this course. Students are expected to read diversified literature comprising articles from high quality journals, textbooks and reference book and develop their scientific understanding about the concepts.   

Course objective

• To gain familiarity with the concepts of organisational behaviour.
• To develop an understanding of the individual and group dimensions.
• To understand the diversified human forces and to provide a platform to learn about the technological changes and its significance on human behaviour.

Course Description: This course has been conceptualized in order to give students an insight of the theoretical and practical perspective, concepts, issues and practices in Human Resource Management. The course is divided in two parts and will be completed over two semesters. The present course that comprises the Part I component highlights on the key functions of planning, acquiring and training resources through a scientific approach by understanding the HRM Model and practices.

Course Objectives: 

This course will help the learner to

• Gain familiarity with evolution and models of HRM
• Understand the key functions in the area of Planning, acquiring and training resources
• Learn about the global environment, diversity issues and best practices in the organizations

Course Description: This course has been conceptualized to provide an examination of the application of psychometric testing in organizations for the purpose of organizational diagnosis. This paper helps to understand the human systems, collecting valid data about human experience and feeding the information back to the system.  This forms the basis of knowledge for the use of psychological assessment in the practice of diagnosis under organizational development. The paper ensures that student build skills to be able to critique psychometric instruments with respect to normative data provided in a technical manual, be aware of multicultural concerns related to testing, and integrate test scores into a meaningful communication in the form of a psychological report. At the institutional level, the course focusses towards developing professional excellence by enhancing the practical skills along with their analytical ability with critical and solutional-oriented thinking.

Course objectives: This course will help the learner to

• Demonstrate knowledge of fundamental principles of Organizational Diagnosis
• Understand the intersection of theory, method, data and values
• Demonstrate knowledge of various psychological assessments
• Interpret and report psychometric properties of tests such as reliability, validity

This course focuses on creating awareness about the mental health issues that may be present in the workplace and its impact on work. It also focuses on how mental health issues can be addressed, and how and why referral has to be done.

This course is offered to students in the first semester to introduce them to the tradition of quantitative and qualitative research in psychology. It begins by discussing the philosophical foundations of quantitative and qualitative research followed by the scientific basis of research. Students are expected to see the links between scientific process of research and development in the field. Students will be introduced to research designs and process of research in quantitative and qualitative methods. 

Course Description: The course introduces the students to various psychometric tests commonly used in the workplace. Aptitude tests, interest tests, intelligence tests, personality tests, motivation tests and creativity tests are explored. The course aims to teach the students how to analyse, interpret and write the report of psychometric tests. Projective tests, interpersonal tests and organizational and management tools are also covered. The course intends to give students hands-on experience in test construction based on the theories learnt and also train them in item analysis and item validation.

Course Objectives:

• To understand the concepts and theories related to psychometric testing.
• To gain knowledge in administering, reporting and interpreting results.
• To understand and apply the process in the construction of a psychometric tool.

Course Description

In this course, students will spend four hours a week or a total of 30 hours during the semester involved in supervised community service. Students are encouraged to work alongside NGO’s or other professional bodies. Students will engage in activities such as children, adolescents and youth teaching/tutoring, community organization, psychological assessment and mental health awareness. Reflections on their interactions are an integral part of this course. Student engagement will be assessed by the supervisor.

Course objectives

This course will help the learner 

• To choose a community-based organization that they are interested in working with. 
• To support organizations to help the community.

This course aims at combining the theoretical and practical concepts included in the course structure. The students will be able to gain knowledge by exploring the contemporary issues, debates in the field of Human Resource Management and understand how Psychology can be applied in industrial setting. This course helps in the overall development of the student wherein they are encouraged to develop their understanding of the various HR concepts. The students will be presenting seminars on selected concepts by examining the issue closely. This course improves the knowledge level of the students about the various topics and also learn how to execute a seminar programme.

Organizational leadership is the core of any given situation. The practices and systems in an organization are directly influenced within the culture it operates. It is important to understand how culture coevolves as the organization grows and ages into success. There are different demands of leadership with the evolving culture and one needs to understand how these are important. 

This course introduces to the students the concept of Organizational Development (OD) and the theoretical models explaining it.  This course also aims at making the students understand the process of organizational diagnosis. The course also explores the dynamics of power, politics and ethics while implementing change.

The course is designed to give students an insight of the theoretical and practical perspective, concepts, issues and practices in Human Resource Management. The course is divided in two parts and will be completed over two semesters. Part II deals with more key aspects of human resource management. This paper is a continuation of HRM 1 from the first semester. The paper continues to introduce students to the fundamental concepts and the various HR functions.

The course provides a foundation for managerial economics and gives an understanding of the basic economic principles used in managerial decision-making.  It throws light on the analytical tools of economics applied by the business organizations to deal with a dynamic business environment and complex decision-making process.  It deals with basic aspects of the functioning of the market through the analysis of the economics of consumption and production. This course also deals with the basic features of the Indian economy and draws out the role of macroeconomic variables and policies in managerial decision-making.

The Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Course in the HRDM programme is designed to promote the graduate attributes of Academic Excellence, as this course offers insight into cutting-edge advances in the applications of Cognitive Neuroscience in Human Resource Management. The course also addresses the attribute of Professional Excellence, particularly Creative thinking and Entrepreneurship, as students are encouraged to develop ideas for Artificially Intelligent systems that can promote functioning in the workplace. The skills developed in this course align with the Programme objectives in terms of training students with skills that are useful in human resource management, such as psychometric testing in the form of cognitive and behavioural assessments. The course also introduces the use of interventions from a cognitive neuroscience perspective in addressing the intra- and inter-individual issues in the workplace.

This course is offered to students in the second semester to introduce them to theanalytical techniques used in quantitative and qualitative research in psychology. It enables the student to analyse the data using SPSS, draw inferences using both quantitative and qualitative research, and develop skills on computer assisted qualitative data anylsis. 

As a part of this course, each student is expected to conduct a research project on any of the issues in relation to organizational psychology and human resource management. The faculty mentor will serve as the research supervisor. Students are required to consult their research supervisor once in every week and conduct their research work. Faculty supervisors will monitor the progress at all stages of the research project.

As a part of this course, each student is expected to conduct a research project on any of the issues in relation to organizational psychology and human resource management. The faculty mentor will serve as the research supervisor. Students are required to consult their research supervisors once every week and conduct their research work. Faculty supervisors will monitor the progress at all stages of the research project.

This course aims at combining the theoretical and practical concepts included in the course structure. The students will be able to gain knowledge by exploring the contemporary issues, debates in the field of Human Resource Management and understand how Psychology can be applied in industrial setting. This course helps in the overall development of the student wherein they are encouraged to develop their understanding of the various HR concepts. Experts from the field present various topics to the students.    

Course objectives: 

• This course will help the learner to gain a familiarity with the recent trends in human resources.
• To increase the knowledge level on the latest developments in the field of HRM.

This course introduces to the students the concept of Organizational Development (OD) and also aims at making the students understand about the process of organizational diagnosis. Various OD interventions are introduced to orient the students about the process of implementing OD. 

Course objectives

1.To gain familiarity with the organisational development interventions.

2.Familiarize with the current challenges and understand the strategic objectives.

3.To select appropriate intervention tools and apply them scientifically. 

The Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience Course in the HRDM programme is designed to promote the graduate attributes of Academic Excellence, as this course offers insight into cutting-edge advances in the applications of Cognitive Neuroscience in Human Resource Management. The course also addresses the attribute of Professional Excellence, particularly Creative thinking and Entrepreneurship, as students are encouraged to develop ideas for Artificially Intelligent systems that can promote functioning in the workplace. The skills developed in this course align with the Programme objectives in terms of training students with skills that are useful in human resource management, such as psychometric testing in the form of cognitive and behavioural assessments. The course also introduces the use of interventions from a cognitive neuroscience perspective in addressing the intra- and inter-individual issues in the workplace.

This course provides an understanding of general management principles and perspectives within the context of strategic management in a functional environment. It focuses on learning the fundamental concepts in strategic management from the responsibilities and role of a general manager, competitive analysis, and approach to the varied evolutions of an organizational system. The course enhances the skills required to carry out general management from a strategic viewpoint.

Course Objectives

•Gain familiarity with the strategic principle of management

•Understand the nature of strategic management in the institutional and competitive landscape

•Learn the process and frameworks of strategy formulation and its application

•Familiarise with strategy implementation and control

This course has been conceptualized to provide an examination of the application of Psychology in the business set up. This paper helps to understand the contemporary issues and trends that impact the success of the Business of Organizations and enhance productivity. This paper ensures that the student enhances practical skills and develops the analytical ability.

Course objective:

This course will help the learner to

1.To develop Students’ competencies in applying the psychological principles to manage and lead employees in the Digital era

2.To understand the diversity within organizations and learn to apply the learning to resolve diversity-related issues 

3.To Orient them about Marketing and Advertising concepts and to familiarize the students with the Psychological influences in the decision-making process of the consumer

4.To make students, understand the criticality of an Organization’s Vision, Mission, Values and Ethical Practices in the overall well-being of the employees and the Organization.