Introduction to Workplace Wellbeing

Overview

Introduction

Wellbeing is a core value of most societies, albeit conceptualised, defined, and promoted in diverse ways. Deriving primarily from a psychological perspective, this course introduces participants to a sociotechnical systems model of workplace wellbeing, contextualising the organisation’s role between individual’s own wellbeing management, the services, infrastructure and policies in society and the physical infrastructure and technological environment.

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Short description

The course aims to provide students with:

• An understanding of what the workplace wellbeing is and how it can be measured.
• The ability to conceptualise the organisation as a sociotechnical system with wellbeing as a key outcome.
• An understanding of the psychosocial, organisational, contextual, and societal factors influencing wellbeing.
• An appreciation of leadership and change management strategies needed to design and deliver effective wellbeing initiatives.
• The ability to apply their knowledge to evaluating wellbeing initiatives.

What topics will you cover?

• Defining wellbeing
• Sociotechnical systems and wellbeing
• Organisational psychology and wellbeing
• Social psychology and wellbeing
• Individual psychology and wellbeing
• Change management and wellbeing
• Measurements and wellbeing

Who is this course for?

Workplace wellbeing managers or those with specific wellbeing responsibilities in their organisation, e.g. healthy eating; workplace wellbeing consultants, health and safety officers, HR personnel or staff wellbeing programme managers. The course is also suitable for participants who may wish to pursue a future role in the area of wellbeing. Note: this course is not industry specific and the learning can be applied to any industry area.

Who teaches the course?

Assistant Professor Sam Cromie and Assistant Professor Siobhán Corrigan along with relevant industry professionals where applicable.

How is the course delivered?

This is a seven-week course divided into seven sessions. Each session is designed to be completed over the course of a week and will comprise several offline learning elements complemented with a one-hour live webinar (evening). The webinar and study material will be accessed via our student learning platform, Blackboard.

The one hour live webinars usually take place from 5.30pm pm to 6.30pm (Irish time) on Thursdays.

September 28th
October 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
November 2nd, 9th

Additional participant information

For the best online experience, we recommend the use of Chrome as your default browser, along with a USB (or other) headset with built in microphone.  Each live webinar will last one hour. Outside of this you can also expect to spend additional time completing pre session material, such as watching introduction videos or preparing some questions for discussion.

Certificate of completion

This course will run over a 7 week period (dates to be confirmed). On successful completion participants will be provided with a Certificate of Completion. Note class attendance will be recorded.