Occupational / Business Psychology MSc

at University of Worcester

Our courses are informed by research and current developments in the discipline and feedback from students, external examiners and employers. Modules do therefore change periodically in the interests of keeping the course relevant and reflecting best practice. The most up-to-date information will be available to you once you have accepted a place and registered for the course. If there are insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, this might not be offered, but we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative. 
 

• Advanced Research Analysis
  This module aims to consolidate undergraduate research abilities, and equip the student with the skills necessary to undertake Masters level research. As a core module of the course, research design and advanced statistical analysis are covered, using both quantitative and qualitative methods.
• Psychological Assessment at Work
  This module introduces the student to the means of fulfilling the organisational need to have people in work positions who either have the characteristics required for effective performance of the tasks of a job or have the capacities for relevant learning and development.
• Well-being and Work
  This module introduces the student to the link between well-being and work from both individual and organisational perspectives. Mental and physical health will be considered explicitly, with a focus on the psychological evidence base for relevant interventions.
• Work Design, Organisational Change and Development
  This module will introduce the student to a range of factors affecting organisational effectiveness including the design of working environments, the consideration of risk management, organisational change and development strategies and contemporary themes within consumer psychology.
• Leadership Engagement and Motivation
  This module introduces the student to the wide range of theories of leadership, engagement and motivation in the workplace, and their relationship with approaches to performance including management systems, relations between management and employees, organisational commitment and perceptions of fairness.
• Learning, Training and Development
  This module introduces the student to procedures designed to bring about learning and development in individuals, including the acquisition of skills and the development of work related competence, employability and attitudes, through training, career planning and coaching.
• Advanced Independent Study
  The Dissertation is designed to allow the student to carry out a major piece of empirical research in an applied setting, based on the foundation of their course, for example Business/ Occupational Psychology Masters students will be expected to carry out their Dissertation in an organisational setting.
• Professional Skills Development
  This module introduces you to range of professional skills linking to career development. Overall models for reflection on evidence-based practice and also tools and techniques for gathering, analysing and feeding back data in organisational contexts.

• The Business Psychology MSc is open to students with a non-psychology related degree, although some elements of psychology or business should have been previously studied.
• The Occupational Psychology MSc is only open to those students who hold a psychology degree with Graduate Basis for Registration (GBC) from the British Psychological Society (BPS).

The tuition fees shown for students are for one complete academic year of full time study and are set according to the academic year of entry. Fees for subsequent years of your course may rise in line with an inflationary uplift as determined by the government.

Our courses will equip you for employment within a diverse range of organisations. Occupational and Business Psychologists work in training, environments, recruitment, coaching, organisational change, management, consultancy and in academic research and teaching.

Many Occupational/Business Psychologists are employed within the public sector, such as the Police, Civil Service Commission, Department for Work and Pensions, Ministry of Defence, HM Prison Service and the NHS.

Students who have completed our programmes have gone on to work in the following areas:
 

• PhD study
• Psychometric testing
• Psychology, management or recruitment consultancy
• Human resources
• Health and wellbeing within the NHS
• Coaching
• Counselling
• Management within organisations

The structure and content of the programme allows students to gain skills that are valued by employers and help them to find their chosen career.