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GULSEHIR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / GİK 118 - İNSAN KAYNAKLARI YÖNETIMI

Code: GİK 118 Course Title: WORKING PSYCHOLOGY Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 3
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course Short Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department İNSAN KAYNAKLARI YÖNETIMI
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer MEHTAP ARACI KAZICI (maraci@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s) MEHTAP ARACI KAZICI,
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course; To enable students to have an idea about the concepts and methods used in explaining the working lives of individuals, including efforts to increase employee satisfaction and productivity, to develop a sense of belonging, to reduce the stress and distress they may experience at work.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Can describe psychological job analysis, objectives and process PO-1 Business, Economics, Law, Sociology, Mathematics, Statistics, Management, human resource management will have a basic knowledge about the theoretical and practical.
PO-2 Human Resources Management uses the basic and current technical information.
PO-4 Access to information related to Human Resource Management, yarayanlar?n? work selecting, understanding, interpretation, and learns to use the skills and lifelong learning by improving apply.
Examination
LO-2 Can explain the purpose of personnel selection and its importance for the individual and the organization. PO-2 Human Resources Management uses the basic and current technical information.
PO-4 Access to information related to Human Resource Management, yarayanlar?n? work selecting, understanding, interpretation, and learns to use the skills and lifelong learning by improving apply.
PO-5 Human Resource Management-related data collection, processing, and publicizing the results of stages of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical values, act accordingly.
Examination
LO-3 Explain the psychological pressure created by the performance appraisal process on the individual. PO-2 Human Resources Management uses the basic and current technical information.
PO-3 Develop solutions to the problems encountered using the techniques of Human Resource Management, it respects the recommendations of the problem by creating a team to share responsibility and undertake necessary for this purpose.
PO-4 Access to information related to Human Resource Management, yarayanlar?n? work selecting, understanding, interpretation, and learns to use the skills and lifelong learning by improving apply.
PO-5 Human Resource Management-related data collection, processing, and publicizing the results of stages of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical values, act accordingly.
Examination
LO-4 Explain the individual and organizational consequences of job dissatisfaction. PO-2 Human Resources Management uses the basic and current technical information.
PO-3 Develop solutions to the problems encountered using the techniques of Human Resource Management, it respects the recommendations of the problem by creating a team to share responsibility and undertake necessary for this purpose.
PO-4 Access to information related to Human Resource Management, yarayanlar?n? work selecting, understanding, interpretation, and learns to use the skills and lifelong learning by improving apply.
PO-5 Human Resource Management-related data collection, processing, and publicizing the results of stages of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical values, act accordingly.
Examination
LO-5 Define the psychological effects of the work environment and the nature of the job on employees. PO-1 Business, Economics, Law, Sociology, Mathematics, Statistics, Management, human resource management will have a basic knowledge about the theoretical and practical.
PO-2 Human Resources Management uses the basic and current technical information.
PO-3 Develop solutions to the problems encountered using the techniques of Human Resource Management, it respects the recommendations of the problem by creating a team to share responsibility and undertake necessary for this purpose.
PO-4 Access to information related to Human Resource Management, yarayanlar?n? work selecting, understanding, interpretation, and learns to use the skills and lifelong learning by improving apply.
PO-5 Human Resource Management-related data collection, processing, and publicizing the results of stages of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical values, act accordingly.
Examination
LO-6 Question the psychological dimensions of collective bargaining. PO-1 Business, Economics, Law, Sociology, Mathematics, Statistics, Management, human resource management will have a basic knowledge about the theoretical and practical.
PO-2 Human Resources Management uses the basic and current technical information.
PO-3 Develop solutions to the problems encountered using the techniques of Human Resource Management, it respects the recommendations of the problem by creating a team to share responsibility and undertake necessary for this purpose.
PO-4 Access to information related to Human Resource Management, yarayanlar?n? work selecting, understanding, interpretation, and learns to use the skills and lifelong learning by improving apply.
PO-5 Human Resource Management-related data collection, processing, and publicizing the results of stages of the social, scientific, cultural and ethical values, act accordingly.
PO-6 The universality of social rights, social justice, quality and cultural values, is conscious of environmental protection and worker health and safety.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The meaning and importance of work, the psychological dimension of personnel selection and performance evaluation, employee motivation and job satisfaction, results of job dissatisfaction, personnel training, work environment and psychological consequences that may occur in the employee, collective bargaining psychology, retirement and unemployment psychology
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Work, work life and job analysis and methods, job design and criteria Lecturing,questions-answers
2 Personnel selection process, purpose and importance Lecturing,questions-answers
3 Personnel selection methods Lecturing,questions-answers
4 Psychological dimension of performance appraisal, performance appraisal methods Lecturing,questions-answers
5 Mistakes made in performance evaluation Lecturing,questions-answers
6 Job motivation and job satisfaction, motivation theories Lecturing,questions-answers
7 Dimensions of job satisfaction, consequences of job dissatisfaction Lecturing,questions-answers
8 mid-term exam
9 Personnel training and development, training needs analysis, learning principles, training methods and techniques, management development training methods Lecturing,questions-answers
10 Psychological consequences of the work environment, psychological and physical conditions Lecturing,questions-answers
11 Working hours and work schedule, nature of work, fatigue at work and relationships at work Lecturing,questions-answers
12 Collective bargaining psychology; the concept and nature of collective bargaining, behavioral sub-processes Lecturing,questions-answers
13 Collective bargaining psychology; The psychological dimension of collective bargaining Lecturing,questions-answers
14 Collective bargaining psychology; collective labor incompatibility with a psychological aspect Lecturing,questions-answers
15 Retirement and unemployment psychology Lecturing,questions-answers
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Çalışma Psikolojisi, Anadolu Üniversitesi Yayınları, Editörler: Leman Bilgin, Ayşe Özdemir, 1.Baskı, 2013
Required Course instruments and materials
Textbook, slide, lecturer lecture notes

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 1 10 10
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 15 30
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 3 1 3
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 1 3
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 90