M.A. (Psychology) Practicum in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
Semesters III and IV are from the Board's own Semester III and IV syllabus approved on 12 July 2024 (item 5.7 (N)), in force from 2024-25. The 2023 document's credit table shows an earlier plan for Semesters III and IV; the 2024 syllabus is the one the University examines, and its Winter 2026 timetables name these papers.
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Syllabus for Practicum in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
The University's syllabus heads this course “PRACTICUM IN INDUSTRIAL PSYCHOLOGY”; the University's list of courses names it “Practicum in Industrial and Organizational Psychology”.
Course objectives
- 1 To acquaint students with the applications of psychometric tools and inventories in organizations
- 2 To acquaint the students with the tools of behavioral and organizational interventions & develop the skills to analyze behavioral issues in organizations.
- 3 To gain firsthand experience through organized field visit to organizations.
- 4 To gain firsthand experience through focused group discussions.
- CO1 Analyze a situation and formulate appropriate action plans
- CO2 Demonstrate skills and techniques for team work, collaboration, conflict resolution etc
- CO3 Develop the skills to conceptualize, formulate, design and conducted structured experiences
- CO4 Assess, evaluate and synthesize observations, reflections, and learning into reports.
Unit 1: Structured experience :( any two in consultation with the supervisor)
- Students should plan, design and conduct the structured exercises in any of the following areas under supervisor supervision: self-awareness, team building, interpersonal skills, leadership skills, perception, decision making and problem solving, creativity, power and politics, communication skills, conflict, stress management, motivation and goal setting, or any recent developments.
Unit 2: HRD instruments: (any five: administered, scored, interpreted and discussed)
- Role efficacy, role stress, coping styles, HRD climate, TOBI, SPRIO, MAO‐ B, emotional intelligence, enneagram, conflict management styles, OCTAPACE, leadership, trust, life and goal planning or any recent developments.
Unit 3: Field visit: (any two field visit)
- Students will get firsthand experience of the organization. Can take up any project given by the organization and write a report. A student can undertake specific or overall activity of the organizations in consultation with the supervisor. The student can choose any two organizations and write a report: education sector, government sector, health sector, banking sector, service industry, NGO, or any recent developments
Unit 4: Force-field analysis and Appreciative Inquiry
- Students will conduct with the help of supervisor all the steps of force field analysis (identifying the problem and identifying the desired state; identifying the forces involved, and determining the strengths of each force. Action plans for increasing driving forces and reducing restraining forces and appreciative inquiry (4 D approach: discovery, dreaming, designing and destiny) as an OD intervention. After conducting the same students will write the report of the same.
Unit 5: Focused Group Discussion
- Student conduct a focus group either based on need diagnostic or problem focused group study in any area of consumer behavior (customers of sales, retail, banking, insurance, aviation etc) or industrial/ organizational psychology/human resource and submit a report.
- a Select the team
- b Select the participants
- c Decide on time and location
- d Prepare for and conduct focus group discussion
- e Submit a repor
Books for reference
- Barbour, R. (2007). Doing Focus Groups. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
- Clark, A.W. (1976). Experimenting with organizational life: The action research approach. New York: Plenum Press.
- Cooperrider, D.L., Whitney, D. &Stavros, J.M. (2008).Appreciative Inquiry Handbook: For Leaders of Change (2nd ed.). San Francisco, USA: Berrett, Koehler Publishers Inc.
- French, W.L., Cecil, H.B., & Vohra, V. (2009). Organizational Development: Behavioral Science Interventions for Organization Improvement (6 th ed.). New Delhi: Prentice Hall.
- Krueger, R.A., Casey, M.A. (2009).Focus Groups: A practical guide for Applied Research (4th ed.). Los Angeles: Sage Publications, Los Angeles.
- Litosselitti, L. (2003).Using Focus Groups in Research. New York, NY:Continuum.
- Pareek, U. & Purhoit, S. (2010).Training Instruments in HRD and OD (3rd ed.). New Delhi: Tata McGraw Hill.
- Pfeiffer, J.W. &Jones, J.E. (1973). A Handbook of structured Experiences for Human Relations Training. San Diego, CA: University Associates Inc.
- Sayeed, O.B & Pareek, U. (2000). Actualizing Managerial Roles: Studies in Role Efficacy. New Delhi: Tata McGraw, Hill Publishing Company Limited.
- Watkins, J.M., Bernard, J., Kelly, M.R. (2011).Appreciative Inquiry: Change at the Speed of Imagination (2nd ed.). USA: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for M.A. (Psychology), Semester III and IV, AC 12/07/2024, Item No. 5.7 (N), in force from the academic year 2024-25. Wording and numbering are as printed there; the marks scheme is in the PDF above.
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