COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PSYCHOLOGY OF LABOR

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKD 7022 PSYCHOLOGY OF LABOR COMPULSORY 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

Offered to

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Course Objective

To identify and analyse cases which cause psychological problems in working life, to study their effects on individual, organisational and social dimensions, to discuss job-worker match and work happiness.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to position psychology of work in psychology science and areas of psychology related with working life
2   To be able to identify areas which cause psychological problems related with working life
3   To be able to ident.fy the effects of psycholoical problems on individuasl, organisations and society
4   To be able to comprehend the psychological effects of unemployment on individuals
5   To be able to evaluate career development stages in terms of psychology
6   To be able to comprehend the importance of ob-worker match and roots of work happiness
7   To be able to develop working conditions which aims at work happiness and decent work

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Work, individual, working life and psychology of work
2 Dispute and conflict in working life
3 Streess and consequences
4 Mobbing and consequences
5 Alienation in working life
6 Issues of wage justice
7 Trade union movement and collective bargaining psychology
8 Abnormal behaviours in working life
9 Psychological dimension of carreer and developmenal stages
10 Psychology of unemployment
11 Psychology of retirement
12 Practices to ensure job-worker match
13 restructing working life aimed at decent work and work happiness.

Recomended or Required Reading

Mustafa Yaşar TINAR , Çalışma Psikolojisi, Izmir 1996 ; Aşkın KESER, Çalışma
Psikolojisi, Ekin Basım Dağıtım, 2009
Yardımcı kaynak:
Aşkın KESER/Gözde YILMAZ/Şenay YÜRÜR, "Çalışma Yaşamında Davranış" Güncel Yaklaşımlar

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The evaluation criteria must be associated with learning 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


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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 124

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7
LO.111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411
LO.511
LO.611
LO.711