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 |
ENM3004 | Human Capital and Leadership | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi CİHANGİR GÜMÜŞTAŞ |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | N/A |
Course Objectives: | This course will provide general information about HRM functions and their importance on organization’s overall performance. Leadership is also important for managing human capital in organizations. During the course features of leadership and basic leadership theories will be explained. By focusing on strategic, operational and administrative roles of human resource management, students will acquire critical knowledge of the changing nature of issues facing their most important organizational asset: human capital. Theories of leadership, power and leadership and different leadership styles will be also discussed during the ccourse. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who have succeeded in this course; -Explain the effect of effective human resources management on organizational strategies and performance. -Understand human resource planning, recruitment, selection and placement functions. -Gain awareness about the importance of lifelong learning skills and the importance of learning and development activities in organizations. -Explain the importance of performance evaluation methods and performance management and understand the importance of individual and team performance. -Explain the factors affecting compensation management and rewarding, and different compensation management systems. - Understands the importance of career management for employees and organizations, explains the impact of entrepreneurship, change and innovation on their career. - Understand differences among the concept of leadership, management, ethics and power, and the relationship between each other. - Understand and compares different leadership approaches and styles. |
During the course firstly new researches about human capital and leadership will be discussed. Human capital management process and its effect on strategic goals of organization will be explained. The course will address all the functions of Human Resource Management that are; planning, recruitment, selection, training and development, performance management, career and talent management and compensation systems. Leadership and power, important theories about the leadership will be also discussed during the course |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction -Global Human Capital Trends | N/A |
2) | Introduction to Human Resource Management | Textbooks and presentations |
3) | Human Resource Planning | Textbooks and presentations |
4) | Selection and Placement | Textbooks and presentations |
5) | Training and Development Management | Textbooks and presentations |
6) | Performance Management | Textbooks and presentations |
7) | Rewarding and Compensation Management | Textbooks and presentations |
8) | Rewarding and Compensation Management | Textbooks and presentations |
9) | Career and Talent Management | Textbooks and presentations |
10) | Career and talent management | Textbooks and presentations |
11) | Introduction to Leadership | Textbooks and presentations |
12) | Leadership Theories 1 | Textbooks and presentations |
13) | Leadership Theories 2 | Textbooks and presentations |
14) | Leadership Theories and General Review | Textbooks and presentations |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | 1. Gary Dessler, Human Resource Management, Prentice Hall, 13th edition, 2013. 2. Peter G. Northouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice, 6th edition, 2013 |
References: | Yok - N/A |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Project | 1 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 30 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 70 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 70 |
Project | 11 | 33 |
Midterms | 6 | 18 |
Paper Submission | 1 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 3 |
Total Workload | 168 |
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 |