Short Course in Employee Wellness (71579)

Short Learning Programmes

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 others 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:

This course in Employee Wellness is divided into these three parts:

Part 1 
Introduces basic concepts such as the competent human being, optimal functioning, wellness and the importance of a balanced lifestyle. The objective in Part 1 is to familiarise you with the concepts that we will be learning more about during this course. In Part 1, you will learn what makes a person competent, how wellness at work and at home can be described, and why a balanced lifestyle is so important.

Part 2 

Focuses on stress, burnout and factors that negatively affect employee wellness. The objective of Part 2 is to improve your understanding of stressors, both in terms of how they influence an employee in general and in terms of your own personal stressors. In Part 2, we shall also be discussing factors relating to burnout, and reflect on the effect that stressors and burnout has on people (including you).

Part 3 

Examines alternative ways of handling everyday stressors, how to view and perceive optimal functioning and how to improve your personal wellbeing, both at work and in your private life. It examines how to use different perspectives of salutogenesis and positive psychology when attempting to function as a human being experiencing wellness.