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Related Preparation |
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An overview of culture: Definitions and significance of culture; culture as an independent variable (I)
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An overview of culture: Definitions and significance of culture; culture as an independent variable (II)
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Dimensions of culture; culture of a polity: Inglehart-Welzel World Cultural Map |
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From corporate to national culture: The IBM project and Hofstede's theory based on IBM data |
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5) |
How to define and measure corporate culture (I) |
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6) |
How to define and measure corporate culture (II) |
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7) |
REVIEW BEFORE MIDTERM |
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8) |
Two success stories: Lufthansa and BMW |
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9) |
How to build a successful corporate culture |
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10) |
Corporate culture and performance: how and to what extent does corporate culture affect performance? |
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11) |
Can culture change? |
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12) |
Corporate culture in Turkey (I) |
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13) |
Corporate culture in Turkey (II) |
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14) |
Review
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Course Notes / Textbooks: |
Heskett, J. The Culture Cycle, New Jersey: FT Press, 2012.
Hofstede, G., Hofstede, G. J. And M. Minkov, Cultures and Organizations, New York: McGraw Hill, 2010.
Inglehart, R. and Welzel, C., Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy, Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2005.
Sackmann, S. A., Success Factor: Corporate Culture, Bertelsmann Stiftung, 2006.
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
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Having the theoretical and practical knowledge proficiency in the discipline of industrial product design |
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2) |
Applying professional knowledge to the fields of product, service and experience design development |
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3) |
Understanding, using, interpreting and evaluating the design concepts, knowledge and language |
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4) |
Knowing the research methods in the discipline of industrial product design, collecting information with these methods, interpreting and applying the collected knowledge |
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5) |
Identifying the problems of industrial product design, evaluating the conditions and requirements of problems, producing proposals of solutions to them |
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6) |
Developing the solutions with the consideration of social, cultural, environmental, economic and humanistic values; being sensitive to personal differences and ability levels |
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7) |
Having the ability of communicating the knowledge about design concepts and solutions through written, oral and visual methods |
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8) |
To identify and apply the relation among material, form giving, detailing, maintenance and manufacturing methods of design solutions |
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9) |
Using the computer aided information and communication technologies for the expression of industrial product design solutions and applications |
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10) |
Having the knowledge and methods in disciplines like management, engineering, psychology, ergonomics, visual communication which support the solutions of industrial product design; having the ability of searching, acquiring and using the knowledge that belong these disciplines when necessary. |
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Using a foreign language to command the jargon of industrial product design and communicate with the colleagues from different cultures |
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12) |
Following and evaluating the new topics and trends that industrial product design needs to integrate according to technological and scientific developments |
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