Course Language |
English |
Course Type |
N/A |
Course Level |
Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery |
Face To Face |
Learning and Teaching Strategies |
Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Team/Group, Brain Storming.
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Course Coordinator |
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Course Lecturer(s) |
- Instructor Dr. Burcu Tosun
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Course Assistants |
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Course Objectives |
The main objective of this course is providing students with a global and broad perspective of reasons and results of human behavior in organizations.
Laws in the physical sciences are consistent and apply in a wide range of situations. But human beings are complex, and no simple and universal principles explain human behaviors. Because we are not alike, our ability to make simple, accurate, and sweeping generalizations is limited. Understanding employees’ behaviors has never been more important for managers. Global competition requires employees to become more flexible and cope with rapid change. The global recession has brought to the forefront the challenges of working with and managing people during uncertain times.
Each person is a student of behavior. We all have been “reading” people almost all our lives, watching their actions and trying to interpret what we see or predict what people might do under different conditions. Unfortunately, the casual or common sense approach to reading others can often lead to erroneous predictions. However, we can improve our predictive ability by supplementing intuition with a more systematic approach which is based on the belief that behavior is not random. |
Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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Students can interpret and analyse how people behave in an organization, why they behave like that, and how their behavior affects the organization’s performance.
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Students can anayze and interpret the important facts underlying individual behaviors in the work place.
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Students can improve their ability of predicting the behaviors of people in the work place, depending on connections and scientific evidences.
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Course Content |
Thinking critically with behavioral science, exploring the biology of mind, discription of human diversity, sensation and perception, learning process and conditioning, the phenomenon of memory and memory construction, thinking and language, motivation and work, emotions, personality. |