MSc Work Psychology & Business

Core Modules:

• Organisational Behaviour
• Learning & Talent Development 
• Workplace Design & Health 
• Research Methods in Human Resource Management & Business and Organisational Behaviour 
• Employee Relations and Counselling
• Assessment Performance and Reward
• Strategy, Change & Leadership 

 Optional Modules (Choose one) :

• Accounting for Non-Financial Managers
• Organisational Behaviour Theory and Practice
• Strategic Business Sustainability
• Strategic  & International Human Resource Management
• Marketing Management
• Operations Management
• Strategic Management
• Management of Innovation
• Economic Environment of Business

The programme then concludes with a dissertation project

Business skills for life: t he essential Aston Professional Development Programme

The Aston Professional Development Programme (PDP) is an integral module that forms part of your MSc taught course from day one.This compulsory module runs throughout the academic year. We have designed it around knowledge through practice - to enhance your employability as you customise the PDP experience to suit your own learning goals and skills development needs.

We take a multidimensional, qualitative and individually tailored approach. Using reflective models, we integrate a competency-based framework into our existing academic programmes.  You will engage with different kinds of experiential learning, such as skills workshops, work-based experience, study abroad and develop your own unique skillset.  

This pathway between theory and the world of work brings together Aston’s faculty, careers practitioners and business and academic partnerships teams to help you step into your future careers as culturally aware, global professionals.

You will be assessed through a mixture of examinations and coursework. The taught element of the programme is then complemented by a substantial piece of research leading to the completion of a dissertation.

You will acquire skills in the following areas: giving presentations; team working; report writing; negotiation and IT skills.

Dr Joanne Lyubovnikova
BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA, C.Psychol.
Joanne is a Lecturer in Organisational Psychology and a Chartered Occupational Psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council. Her research interests are in the area of group and team effectiveness and she publishes her work in peer-reviewed journals, books, and at conferences both nationally and internationally. Joanne lectures on various modules including Organisational Behaviour, Effective Teamwork, and Workplace Design and Health, teaching across undergraduate, MSc and MBA programmes.

• Dr Matthew Carter
  BSc, MSc, PhD
• Dr Ann Davis
  BSc, PhD, C.Psychol.
• Dr Alison Glaister 
  BSc, MA, PhD, PgCHEP, FHEA, Assoc. CIPD
• Dr Yves Guillaume
  Diploma, MA, PhD, C.Psychol.
• Dr Claudia Sacramento
  BA, MSc, PhD
• Dr Judy Scully
  BA, PhD
• Dr Nicholas Theodorakopoulos
  BSc, MBA, PhD