Psychology

  • Credits: 6
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: summer
  • Year: 2
  • Faculty of Business Management

Teachers

Included in study programs

Business Economics and Management

Teaching results

Knowledge:
• The course provides theoretical knowledge in the field of applied psychological disciplines: personality psychology, work psychology, social psychology and psychology of management and leadership of people. All these disciplines form the basis of managerial and entrepreneurial competences and skills.
Competence:
• understand human behaviour and identify nonstandard employee behaviour in the work process,
• effectively use knowledge of individual personality types in employee selection, employee placement in the company, planning training needs, employee career development, etc.,
• evaluate the choice and purpose of using psychological methods in the company,
• propose solutions to various forms of bullying in the work group.
Skill:
• diagnostics of psychological states of people working in the work process,
• prevention of negative psychological states in the work process,
• development of work and rest regimes and adjustments to the working environment in accordance with the promotion of the mental health of employees.

Indicative content

Thematic definition of lectures:
1. Introduction to the subject of psychology.
2. Methods of psychology and their application in practice.
3. Psychology of personality.
4. Personality of the manager.
5. Work and entrepreneurial activity from the psychological point of view.
6. Psychological effects of the work environment.
7. Psychology of performance and efficiency.
8. Psychological tools for increasing work motivation.
9. Psychological phenomena in the work group.
10. Bullying in the work group.
11. Mental health and the emergence of mental disorders in the work process.
12. Mental states arising in the work process.
13. Building mental resilience.
Thematic definition of exercises:
1. Introduction to the subject of psychology.
2. Methods of psychology and their application in practice.
3. Personality psychology.
4. Manager's personality.
5. Work and business activities from a psychological point of view.
6. Psychology of the work environment.
7. Psychology of performance and effectiveness.
8. Psychological tools for increasing work motivation.
9. Psychological phenomena in the working group.
10. Bullying in the working group.
11. Sources, symptoms of mental disorders and their impact on the performance of managers.
12. Sources, symptoms of mental states and their impact on the performance of managers.
13. Tools for building psychological resilience of company employees.

Support literature

Basic literature:
1. MATKOVČÍKOVÁ, Natália - SZARKOVÁ, Miroslava. The Occurrence of anxiety disorders amongst managers working in the field of personnel marketing. In Ekonomika a manažment : vedecký časopis Fakulty podnikového manažmentu Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave. - Bratislava : Fakulta podnikového manažmentu Ekonomickej univerzity v Bratislave, 2016. ISSN 2454-1028, 2016, roč. 13, č. 1, s. 88-97 online.
Supplementary literature:
1. MATKOVČÍKOVÁ, Natália - SZARKOVÁ, Miroslava - BELÁŇOVÁ, Benita. Mental Health and Occupational Health and Safety in Human Resource Management in the Stage of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 and Development Trends. Reviewers: Kristína Králiková, Zdenka Macková. 1st Edition. České Budějovice : Vysoká škola evropských a regionálních studií, 2021. 138 s. ISBN 978-80-7556-085-8.
2. MATKOVČÍKOVÁ, Natália. Motivational orientation of young talented managers. In Societas et Res Publica : medzinárodný internetový vedecký časopis zameraný na problematiku verejnej správy v kontexte interdisciplinárnych spoločenských súvislostí. - [Trnava] : [Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda, Fakulta sociálnych vied]. 2013. ISSN 1338-6530, 2013, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 183-189.
3. MATKOVČÍKOVÁ, Natália. Psychological effect of stressfull workplace on the performance of the employees. In Studia Społeczne : social studies. - Warszawa : Wydawnictvo Wyższej Szkoły Menedżerskej w Warszawie, 2015. ISSN 2449-9714, 2015, roč. 12, č. 1, s. 143-146 online. VEGA 1/0053/12.
4. ARNOLD, John - RANDALL, Ray. Work psychology: understanding human behaviour in the workplace. 5th ed. New York: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2010. ISBN 9780273711216.
5. LUTGEN-SANDVIK, P. - TRACY, S. J., - ALBERTS, J. K. Burned by bullying in the American workplace: Prevalence, perception, degree, and impact (str. 854). Journal of Management Studies. 2007. ISSN 44(6), 837– 862.
6. SULS, J.; DAVID, J. P; HARVEY, J. H. Personality and Coping: Three Generations of Research. Journal of Personality. 1996. ISSN 64(4) , 711-735.
7. BIRON, C. - BURKE, R.J. Creating Healthy Workplaces - Stress Reduction, Improved Well-being, and Organizational Effectiveness. London, Routledge, 2014. 384 s. ISBN 9781317158530.

Syllabus

Thematic definition of lectures: 1. Introduction to the subject of psychology. 2. Methods of psychology and their application in practice. 3. Psychology of personality. 4. Personality of the manager. 5. Work and entrepreneurial activity from the psychological point of view. 6. Psychological effects of the work environment. 7. Psychology of performance and efficiency. 8. Psychological tools for increasing work motivation. 9. Psychological phenomena in the work group. 10. Bullying in the work group. 11. Mental health and the emergence of mental disorders in the work process. 12. Mental states arising in the work process. 13. Building mental resilience. Thematic definition of exercises: 1. Introduction to the subject of psychology. The emergence and development of psychology in connection with the development of management. Applied psychological disciplines forming the essence of managerial and entrepreneurial competencies and skills. Main psychological concepts and their use in management practice. 2. Methods of psychology and their application in practice. Choice and use of psychological methods. General, specific and projective psychological methods. Application of psychology methods in management practice. 3. Personality psychology. Personality structure. The Big Five five-factor personality model and its use in practice. Basic personality typologies. 4. Manager's personality. Manager's personality profile. Manager's mental and psychological characteristics. Manager's abilities. Manager's skills. Manager's mental processes. Manager's mental states in the work process. 5. Work and business activities from a psychological point of view. Psychology of work. Analysis of work activity and its methods. Psychological profesiogram, content and its structure. The importance of profesiography and profesiogram in business management. Funkciography and creation of a funkciograph. Mental work capacity. 6. Psychology of the work environment. Psychological effects of the work environment. Workplace lighting. Psychological effect of the use of colors in the work environment. Noise in the workplace. Microclimatic conditions in the workplace. 7. Psychology of performance and effectiveness. Work performance and its direct and indirect indicators. Changes or fluctuations in work performance during a work shift. Biorhythm of employees in the work process. Variability in the work process. Flexible working hours as a factor related to employee performance in the work process. 8. Psychological tools for increasing work motivation. Motivational profile of the employee/manager and its use in practice. Motivational personality types. Psychological tools for increasing work motivation. Motivation programs. 9. Psychological phenomena in the working group. The importance of interpersonal relationships in the workplace. Working group vs. team. Team building. Synergistic effect and its significance. Psychological phenomena in a working group. 10. Bullying in the working group. Negative psychological phenomena in the work group. Bullying in the form of mobbing, bossing, sexual harassment, cyberbullying. The personality of the aggressor. Consequences and options for action in the case of bullying for the employee and the company. 11. Mental disorders arise in the work process. Mental health and its importance. The most common mental disorders in the work process and their manifestations. Treatment of mental disorders. 12. Mental states arising in the work process. Sources, manifestations of mental states and their impact on the performance of employees and managers. Fatigue in the work process. Stress in the work process and its management. 13. Mental resilience in the work process. Building mental resilience. Tools for preventing negative mental states in the work process.

Requirements to complete the course

40% semestral work – condition 51%, 60% combined exam – condition 51%

Student workload

156 h (attendance at lectures 26 h, attendance at seminars 26 h, preparation for seminars 26 h, elaboration of a seminar paper 26 h, preparation for the final examination 52 h)

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak

Date of approval: 10.03.2025

Date of the latest change: 04.09.2025