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An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
Education & Development

An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace

...psychology and sociology still do not agree on the properties of an individual’s identity. The disciplines of psychology and sociology are home to two dominant perspectives on identity that are relevant for this course. In the discipline of psychology, researchers focus on the individual and understand identity to be a result of one’s mental traits and dispositions....
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Money & Business

Exploring career mentoring and coaching

...psychology coaching – integrating coaching and positive psychology to enhance performance and wellbeing. Throughout this course, you’ll be focusing mainly on career coaching, although executive and leadership coaching also relate directly to the workplace...Week 1: Where am I starting from?: 1.3 Defining career coaching - Dr Julia Yates, Deputy Head of Psychology at...
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Education & Development

Leadership and followership

...psychology, management or even statistics, will also have an influence, along with the prevailing attitudes from the era in which the term was defined. In more recent times, Northouse (2022, p. 54) describes a growth in ‘moral approaches to leadership’ and, aligned with increasing awareness of the value of diversity within the workplace, the introduction of inclusive...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring
Money & Business

Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

...psychology, psychotherapy or human resources, or have undertaken specialist coaching training. More management training: typically, mentors have a background in senior management, with limited coaching/mentoring training. 6. Client Dual client: more typically, a dual focus on the needs of the individual and the needs of the organisation. Single client: more typically, a...
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
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Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...psychological perspective on wellbeing...Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion: 2.2 The PERMA model - Wellbeing is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as ‘the state of being comfortable, healthy, or happy’. However, it is important to realise that wellbeing is a much broader concept than moment-to-moment happiness. While it does include happiness, it also...
Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?
Society, Politics & Law

Why are nonhuman animals victims of harm?

...psychologically harmed is unavoidable for all animals, whether human or nonhuman, but for criminologists, an increasing area of concern is avoidable harm generated by social arrangements, in short, social harm. Social harms result from contingent social arrangements – those that are not inevitable but could potentially be restructured to be less harmful. ‘Livestock’...
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Multidisciplinary study: the value and benefits

...psychology, and they will switch from the idea of having done that first foundation module. So that can lead you into areas you never thought you'd be interested in. SPEAKER 5 I think I like having that flexibility. I mean, that's what the Open degree is all about. SPEAKER 3 So students can pretty much study any modules they like, because they're all online so they can...
Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work
Society, Politics & Law

Carrying out research for policy and advocacy work

...psychology’, Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3, pp. 77–101. Curran, L. (2007) ‘University law clinics and their value in undertaking client-centred law reform to provide advice for clients’ experiences’, International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 12, pp. 105–130. Available at: https://doi.org/10.19164/ijcle.v12i0.73 (Accessed: 8 December 2023)....