COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHS IN WORKING LIFE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEK 5011 PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCHS IN WORKING LIFE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TUNÇ DEMIRBILEK

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the ability to evaluate analytical and analyse-based studies in the field of work psychology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to comprehend scientific research method and process
2   Being able to recognize research methods in work psychology
3   Being able to comprehend individual and organizational functions of work psychology
4   Being able to evaluate work psychology globally
5   Being able to analyse current problems in work psychology

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Scientific Method, Research Types and Data Collection
2 Scientific Research Process, Formal Structure of Research Paper
3 Ethics in Scientific Writings, Publishing Scientific Papers and Global Indexes
4 Research Methods In Work Psychology
5 Measurement and Meta-Analysis in Work Psychology
6 Work Psychology Research Areas: Job Analysis, Job Design
7 Work Psychology Research Areas: Personnel Selection
8 Midterm Exam
9 Work Psychology Research Areas: Performance Evaluation, Individual And Team Training And Cross-Cultural Industrial-Organizational Psychology
10 Work Psychology Research Areas: Human-Environment-Machine Interaction and Counterproductive Behaviours in Workplace
11 Work Psychology Research Areas: Job Satisfaction, Job Motivation and Wage Systems
12 Work Psychology Research Areas: Stress and Career Management in Workplace
13 Work Psychology Research Areas: Organizational Justice, Communication and Leadership
14 Work Psychology Research Areas: Organization Theory and Organizational Culture

Recomended or Required Reading

Edt.: Neil Aderson vd. (2009). Endüstri, Iş ve Örgüt Psikolojisi, 1.Cilt ve 2. Cilt, Istanbul: Literatür Yayınları.
Wayne F. Cascio. (1998). Applied Psychology in Human Resource Management, Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall.
Edt.: Steven G. Rogelberg. (2004). Handbook of Research Methods in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Halil Seyidoğlu. (2009). Bilimsel Araştırma ve Yazma El Kitabı, 10. Baskı, Istanbul: Güzem Can Yayınları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Assignment, Presentation, Question-Answer, Discussion

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 * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + 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)

+ 90 0.232.3010351
t.demirbilek@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Friday 04:00 pm-05:00 pm

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5
LO.1535
LO.2535
LO.3535
LO.4535
LO.5535