Psychology of entrepreneurship

Course: Psychology

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Psychology of entrepreneurship
Code
ДВС.3.04
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
PR4. Make a psychological prognosis for the development of individuals, groups, organizations. PR5. Develop programs of psychological interventions (training, psychotherapy, counseling, etc.), conduct them in individual and group work, assess quality.
Form of study
External form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. The student must know: the basic concepts of social and organizational psychology, psychology of labour and management psychology; patterns of communication and interaction; mechanisms of socio-psychological influence. 2. The student must be able to: operate with the conceptual and categorical apparatus of social psychology, organizational psychology, recognize and qualify certain socio-psychological processes and phenomena in the organization, possess elementary skills in business communication, psychological expertise of organizational and group processes. 3. The student must have: the skills of theoretical analysis, planning and implementation of socio-psychological research, communication skills for presenting their own ideas, discussions and group work.
Course content
The aim of the discipline is to provide students with the necessary knowledge on the psychological nature of the entrepreneurial activity and the psychological characteristics of an entrepreneur as a subject of this activity, obtaining practical skills in assessing the entrepreneurial potential of a person and psychological support for entrepreneurial activity. The structure of the discipline provides for 3 content modules. The first one is devoted to the study of the general principles of entrepreneurial activity and the psychological characteristics of an entrepreneur as a subject of this activity. The second is to get acquainted with the psychological components of strategic business management (goal setting, analysis and forecasting, planning, change management and control). The third is the communicative foundations of entrepreneurial activity (external and internal communications, marketing communications, business communication and networking).
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Butko M. P. Ekonomichna psykholohiia: navch. posib. K. : «Tsentr uchbovoi literatury», 2016. 232 s. 2. Osnovy pidpryiemnytstva: Pidruchnyk / pid zah. red. N.V. Valinkevych. Zhytomyr : ZhDTU, 2019. 492 s. 3. Pachkovskyi Yu.F. Psykholohiia pidpryiemnytstva : navch. posib. K. : Karavela, 2006. 408 s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, individual student work
Assessment methods and criteria
Modular tests, analytical work, creative work, oral report, addition. Form of final control: exam. Grade during the study period (minimum 36 / maximum 60): 1. Oral answers (speech at the seminar, participation in discussions, addition): - 20/12 points 2. Analytical work: - 24/14 points 3. Creative work: - 36/22 points 4. Modular tests: - 20/12 points. The final assessment is carried out in the form of exam. A student is not allowed to pass if during the semester he scored less than 36 points. The maximum number of points that can be obtained by a student at the credit is 40 points, the minimum is 24 points. Grading: 90-100: Excellent 75-89: Good 60-74: Satisfactory 0-59: Fail
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Irina Vadymivna Klimenko
Department of Social Psychology
Faculty of Psychology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Social Psychology
Faculty of Psychology