Short Learning Programmes

Short Course in Employee Wellness (71579)

Duration: Six months

Target group:

Industrial and Organisational Psychologists, Human Resource Managers and Practitioners, Employee Assistance Programme Practitioners and employees interested in personal psychological wellness in the work context

Admission requirements:

Senior Certificate or an equivalent NQF level 4 qualification

Registration periods:

1st semester: January and 2nd semester: June

Course leader details:

Prof O. M Ledimo
Qualifications: DLit et Phil (Industrial and Organisational Psychology)
Department of Industrial and Organisational Psychology
Discipline: Industrial Psychology
Office: SN Radipere Building, 5th Floor
Tel: (012) 429-8219
Fax: (012) 4298368
E-mail: manetom@unisa.ac.za

Programme administrator:

Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp

Purpose statement:

To enable students to develop the competencies to enhance their or other s personal psychological wellness in the work context. They will understand the factors/influences that inhibit personal psychological wellness, as well as those theories and construct that can be utilised to enhance it. The gained knowledge will aid students in compiling a personal development plan to enhance their psychological wellness. By enhancing their own psychological wellness, students will add value in their work context as well as in society by being able to guide others in the understanding and application of personal psychological wellness.

Modules:

CREW01U - COURSE IN EMPLOYEE WELLNESS

Content: Conceptualisation of personal psychological wellness in the work context The theory of partagogy applied to personal psychological wellness Factors or influences that inhibit personal psychological wellness Theory, models, constructs and application of salutogenesis Theory, models, constructs and application of positive psychology Using the above theoretical foundation to assess and improve employee wellness