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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR BUSU569 - 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) Gain an understanding of the human side of the organization
2) Know how learning takes place at the individual, group and organizational levels
3) Know the perceptual inflences on organizational decision processes
4) Know theories of motivation
5) Know the realtionship between motivation and job design
6) Gain an understanding of leadership theories
7) Understand the role of power and politics on organizations
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 to the course: What is Organizational Behavior (OB)?
2nd Week Fundamentals of individual behavior
3rd Week Values, attitudes and job satisfaciton
4th Week Personality and emotions
5th Week Perception and individual decision making
6th Week Theories and appliacations of motivation
7th Week Fundamentals of group behavior and work teams
8th Week Assignment
9th Week Leadership
10th Week Power, politics, conflict and management of conflict
11th Week Organizational structure, design and technology
12th Week Human resources management
13th Week Organizational culture
14th Week Organizational change and stress management
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READINGRobbins, Stephen P., Judge, Timothy A., Campbell, Timothy T. (2010). Organizational Behavior. Prentice Hall.
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 work16060
Preparation for Final exam18080
Course hours14114
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam15050
Homework12020
Project12020
Total Workload244
Total Workload / 308,13
ECTS Credits of the Course8
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONTurkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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