ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
PRL3541 | Employee Communication | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SELCAN YEŞİLYURT |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SELCAN YEŞİLYURT Prof. Dr. HALUK GÜRGEN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course provides perspectives that will undoubtedly illuminate our views of the important role that communication plays in the processes and functions of organizational life. It is through communication that people organize, and understanding how we do this will allow us to study how our own communication patterns affect organizational life. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Define the general terms related to the academic study of organizational communication. 2) To understand and explain theories and perspectives used to examine employee communication. 3) To recognize communication issues in organizations and apply communication concepts, models, and theories to resolve such issues using multiple perspectives. 4) Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of barriers of effective communication. 5) To provide the student with an initial exposure to communication and organizational behavior theory and research. 6) Explain why organizations are resistant to change, and the impact of conflict within the organization. 7) Discuss how power and status influence the normal functioning of organizations and organizational communication 8) Explain how both employee and employer perceptions of each other can impact an organization. 9) Students will assess what is meant by the term leader and the variety of styles of leadership that may be appropriate in different organizational circumstances. |
By explaining the basic communication patterns, employee communication and organizational life processes will be discussed. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Course introduction and overview Public Relations, history and evolution | |
2) | Corporate Communication Organizations and communication function Internal and employee communication | |
3) | Corporate communication Corporations communicating their vision, mission and values | |
4) | Culture Hofstede's national cultural dimensions | |
5) | Hofstede's dimensions of organizational culture | |
6) | Cultures of the organizations Power culture, role culture, person culture, task culture | |
7) | Assessing an organizations's culture Midterm | |
8) | Individual and social approaches to communication Social role theory Role congruity theory Transformational leadership | |
9) | Communication accommodation theory Accommodation through onvergence and divergence | |
10) | Group communication theories Groupthink | |
11) | Organizational assimilation and identification | |
12) | Employee communication channels Media selection Media richness Traditional channels | |
13) | Employee communication channels Online channels Intranets Blogs | |
14) | Change management, preparing employees for times of change Overview |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | |
References: | Communicating with employees improving organizational communication / Frank M. Inside the organization : perspectives on employee communications LeMenager, Jack |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 40 |
Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 44 |
Homework Assignments | 9 | 20 |
Midterms | 1 | 4 |
Final | 1 | 4 |
Total Workload | 114 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |