TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Hamdullah Nejat Basım
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Have awareness of interpersonal relationships 2) Have self awareness about his/her own personal characteristics 3) Can analyze the causes of others' behavior 4) Have awareness of being a team member 5) Have the skills to resolve the role conflicts appearing during team activities 6) Can manage the conflicts present in the peer, superior and subordinate relationships
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION	In this course, human behaviour in organizations is examined in terms of its impacts on individual, group, and organizational effectiveness. In the individual level, personality, values, perception, motivation; in the group level, group formation, communication, leadership, power-politics, conflict and in the organizational level, structure, technology and organizational culture are discussed with respect to their impacts on personal, group and organizational effectiveness.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction and group work 2nd Week Swordfish, bees, flies, gooses and mermaids 3rd Week Need for learning and behavior improvement 4th Week Manager's self awareness: Introduction to Jung's typology 5th Week Awareness of self 6th Week Resistance to Change: Tolerance for Uncertainty and Locus of Control 7th Week Interpersonal Relations Orientation 8th Week Managing Personal Stress 9th Week Creative Problem Solving 10th Week Creative Problem Solving Skills 11th Week Cross-Cultural Differentiation and Management 12th Week Power and Politics: How can you manage the diversities? 13th Week Leadership 14th Week Presentation of the term project
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Robbins, Stephen P. 2003. Organizational Behavior (10th edition). New Jersey: Prentice Hall. Sargut, A. Selami. 2001. Kültürler Arası Farklılaşma ve Yönetim. Ankara: İmge Yayınevi. Johnson, Spencer.1999. Peynirimi Kim Kaptı? İstanbul: Epsilon Yayınları. Gladwell, M. 2008. Outliers: The story of success. New York: Little, Brown and Company. Peters, T. J. ve R. H. Waterman. 1995. Yönetme ve Yükselme Sanatı: Mükemmeli Arayış. İstanbul: Altın Kitaplar Yayınevi.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Quiz 1 50 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No