COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING TECHNICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKD 7034 PROBLEM SOLVING AND DECISION MAKING TECHNICS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR HATICE ŞEBNEM SEÇER

Offered to

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to give problem solving and decision making knowledge
and skill to the students.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To identify the process of problem solving and decision making.
2   To relate between the process of problem solving and decision making.
3   To improve the skills the problem solving and decision making.
4   To introduce the technics of problem solving and decision making that the counselor needed.
5   To implement the technics of problem solving and decision making

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Problem and Problem Solving Definition
2 Problem Solving Processes
3 Problem Solving Models
4 Problem Solving Technics
5 Problem Solving Inventory
6 Counselling and Problem Solving Process
7 Midterm exam
8 Midterm exam
9 Decision Making Definition and Process
10 The Circumstances and Types of Decision Making
11 Decision Making Models
12 Decision Making Inventory
13 Counselling and Decision Making Process
14 Problem Solving and Decision Making with Disadvantageous Groups

Recomended or Required Reading

Adair, John. (2010). Karar Verme ve Problem Çözme, (Çev.: Nurdan Kalaycı), 1.Baskı,
Ankara: Gazi Kitabevi.
Clemen, Robert T. (1996). Making Hard Decisions An Introduction To Decision
Analysis, 2nd Edition, California: Duxbury Pres.
Falino, David F. (2003). Etkili Karar Verme, (Çev.: E. Sabri Yarmalı), Istanbul: Hayat
Yayıncılık.
Kneeland, Steve. (2001). Problem Çözme, (Çev. Nurdan Kalaycı), Ankara: Gazi Kitabevi.
Yates, J. Frank (2003). Decision Management How to Assure Better Decisions In Your
Company, University of Michigan Business School Management Series, San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass.
Yardımcı kaynaklar:
Yozgat, Uğur. (1994). Yönetimde Karar Verme Teknikleri, Istanbul.
Bass, Bernard M. (1983). Organizational Decision Making, New York: Richard D. IRWIN
Inc.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT* 0.40 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.40 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sebnem.secer@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 115

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51