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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR DEVELOPMENT BUSU567 - 3 + 0 8

TYPE OF COURSE UNITElective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITMaster's Degree Without Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY-
SEMESTER-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED8
NAME OF LECTURER(S)-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT At the end of this course, the students;
1) Has awareness of interpersonal relationships
2) Has self awareness about his/her own personal characteristics
3) Can analyze the causes of others' behavior
4) Has awareness of being a team member
5) Has 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 DELIVERYE-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSENo
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTNone
COURSE DEFINITIONIn 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
WEEKTOPICS
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 READINGRobbins, 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 METHODSLecture,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Assignment120
Total(%)20
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)20
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)80
Total(%)100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities Number Hours Workload
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work15050
Preparation for Final exam18080
Course hours14114
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam13030
Homework13030
Project13535
Total Workload239
Total Workload / 307,96
ECTS Credits of the Course8
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONTurkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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