BUU22591 Personal and Professional Development Programme (PPD)

The module offers you a space to reflect on your personal and professional development and prepares for searching a summer internship. The course builds on the academic field of Positive Organizational Scholarship. Positive Organizational Scholarship is an interdisciplinary approach to leading and being in work organizations in ways that call forth high organizational performance simultaneous with bringing out the best in people. Positive Organizational Scholarship is an interdisciplinary approach to leading and being in work organizations in ways that call forth high organizational performance simultaneous with bringing out the best in people. Positive Organizational Scholarship draws from multiple theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of organizational studies. These include developments in positive psychology, positive applied organizational psychology, positive organizational behaviour, and appreciative inquiry. The module will include contributions from the Careers Services.

Learning and Teaching Approach:

This class incorporate research and practical knowledge, each of which can be accompanied by experiential and action learning methodologies; the course is highly interactive and participatory.

Required core course textbook:

N/A

General Supplemental Readings:

• Cameron, K. S. Dutton, J. E., & Quinn, R. E. (2003). Positive Organizational Scholarship: Foundations of a New Discipline. San Francisco: BerrettKoehler.
• Roberts, L. M., Spreitzer, G., Dutton, J., Quinn, R., Heaphy, E., & Barker, B. (2005). How to play to your strengths. Harvard Business Review, 83(1), 74–117.
• Wrzesniewski, A., Berg, J. M., & Dutton, J. E. (2010). Turn the job you have into the job you want. Harvard Business Review, 88(6), 114–117.

Additional readings will be provided as required before each lecture.