COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PSYCHOLOGY IN WORKING LIFE AND ERGONOMICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇIN 5040 PSYCHOLOGY IN WORKING LIFE AND ERGONOMICS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Human Resources

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TUNÇ DEMIRBILEK

Offered to

Human Resources

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to analyse individual in working life from psychological view and to provide students the ability to assess the relationship between psychology and ergonomics.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to comprehend psychological effects of work life on individual
2   Being able to evaluate psychological problems which effect quality of working life and productivity.
3   Being able to explain worker's health and safety problems and their solutions
4   Being able to evaluate the effect of work environments and conditions on work happiness
5   Being able to understand the conditions which ensure coherence among work, environment and individual

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Individual in Working Life and Work Psychology
2 The Concept of Ergonomics and Psychology-Ergonomics Relation
3 Work Alienation and Monotony
4 Conflict in Working Life
5 Workplace Violance and Mobbing
6 Work Stress
7 Wage Management
8 Midterm Exam
9 Wage Justice
10 Quality of Working Life
11 Job Satisfaction
12 Work Happiness
13 Occupational Health and Safety Culture
14 Employee Well-Being

Recomended or Required Reading

Wayne F.Cascio. (2003). Managing Human Resources : Productivity, Quality of Work Life, Profits, 6th Edition, Boston, Mass. : McGraw-Hill/Irwin.
Aşkın Keser. (2011). Çalışma Psikolojisi, Bursa: Ekin Basım Dağıtım.
Frank J. Landy. (2010). Work In The 21st Century : An Introduction To Industrial And Organizational Psychology, Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell.
Ernest J. McCormick ve Daniel R. Ilgen. (1980). Industrial psychology, 7th edition, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall.
David J. Oborne. (1987). Ergonomics at Work, 2nd edition, Chichester : Wiley.
Alaettin Sabancı ve Sarp Korkut Sümer. (2011). Ergonomi, 2. Baskı, Nobel Yayınevi, Istanbul.
Paul E. Spector. (2008). Industrial and Organizational Psychology : Research and Practice, 5th Edition, Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons.
Mustafa Yaşar Tınar. (1996). Çalışma Psikolojisi, Izmir: Necdet Bükey Matbaacılık.

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


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
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 97

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1454444
LO.2555555
LO.3555555
LO.4454444
LO.5535555

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