SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ENM4104 | Organizational Behavior for Engineers | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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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 covers the foundation for the study and application of behaviour in organisations. The goal for the course for participants is to be aware of organisational behaviour and its importance for organisational performance; and developing students' managerial skills. Attention is given to the three levels of organisational behaviour: individual, groups and organisations. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; After completing this course students will be able to: I- Have knowledge about basic organizational behavior concepts. II-Identify and compare the effects of individual, group and organizational factors on productivity and employee attitudes. III- Understand how organizations work and why people behave as they do in work settings. IV- Learn the basic motivation theories and their application on workplace V-Understand effects of culture and leadership on organizations and employee behavior VI- Have knowledge about positive and negative effects of power and politics on organizational process. VII- Identify basic factors that affect group and team behavior. VIII- Learn how to manage inner organizational conflicts successfully |
During the course attention is given to the three levels of organisational behaviour: individual, groups and organisations. Topics that will be covered in the course for individual and group levels are individual behavior, personality and perceptions; motivation, decision making and creativity; ethics, workplace emotions and employee attitudes; team dynamics and communication. For the organizational level organizational leadership, change, culture, power and politics will be explained. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to field of organizational behavior | N/A |
2) | Individual behavior, personality, values and learning | Tesxtbooks and presentations |
3) | Workplace emotions, attitudes and ethics | Textbooks and presentations |
4) | Motivation theories and Applied Motivation Practices | Text books and presentations |
5) | Motivation Theories & Applied Motivation Practices | Textbooks and presentations |
6) | Positive organisational behavior and Work-life balance | Textbooks and presentations |
7) | Decision-making, Perception and Creativity | Textbooks and presentations |
8) | Group Behavior, Team Dynamics and Communication | Textbooks and presentations |
9) | Organizational power and politics | Textbooks and presentations |
10) | Conflict and negotiation in the workplace | Textbooks and presentations |
11) | Leadership | Textbooks and presentations |
12) | Leadership | Textbooks and presentations |
13) | Organizational culture | Textbooks and presentations |
14) | General Review | N/A |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | 1. Organizational Behavior (2015) by Robbins & Judge, Prentice Hall. 2. Organizational Behavior (2015) by Steven L. McShane and Mary Ann Von Glinow, McGraw Hill 3. Organizational Behavior 12th ed. (2011), by Fred Luthans, McGraw Hill 4. Organizational Behavior, (2017) by Jason A. Colquitt, J. A. LePine, M. J. Wesson, McGraw Hill Education |
References: | Yok- N/A |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Quizzes | 7 | % 35 |
Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
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 | 14 | 70 |
Quizzes | 11 | 21 |
Midterms | 6 | 15 |
Final | 1 | 3 |
Total Workload | 151 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products. | |
2) | Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems. | |
3) | Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging. | |
4) | Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem. | |
5) | Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation. | |
6) | Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically. | |
7) | Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams. | |
8) | Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems. | |
9) | Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system. | |
10) | Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities. | |
11) | Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life. | |
12) | Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions. | |
13) | Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions. |