ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT (TURKISH, PHD)
PhD TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 QF-EHEA: Third Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 8

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
YZM5405 Learning Organizations Fall
Spring
3 0 3 12
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester

Basic information

Language of instruction: Tr
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Prof. Dr. MEHMET ALPER TUNGA
Course Objectives: The growing complexity of organizational science and theory is evidenced in the challenges facing public and private sector organizations. The focus of this course is organizational learning and performance: processes, systemic functions, culture, structure, leveraging and use of information systems to inform decision-making. The course requires a field-based study applying course content to conduct an organizational audit and prepares a report.

Learning Outputs

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Review an organizational audit as evidenced by a written report and an oral presentation in class.
2. Develop an understanding of learning organizations and what differentiates organizations that learn from those that do not.
3. Describe past, current, and emerging models relevant to organizations in general, and education leadership specifically.
4. Apply learned theoretical frameworks to relevant, real-world examples utilizing technology and other media.
5. Identify elements of adaptive change within real-world examples (through online resources and video technology.
6. Develop the capacity to lead learning organizations by focusing on key characteristics of quality leadership as well as identifying and utilizing various group process tools.

Course Content

The content of this course is composed of overview course, identify component parts of rganizations, a supportive learning environment, openness to new ideas, innovation, necessary conditions for change, a supportive learning environment, unnatural acts of an organization, concrete learning processes, organizational infrastructure for information use organizational systems processes, concrete learning processes, leadership that reinforces learning, inhuman factors.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Course overview, identify component parts of organizations.
2) A Supportive Learning Environment
3) Openness to New Ideas, Innovation, Necessary Conditions for Change.
4) A Supportive Learning Environment
5) Unnatural Acts of an Organization
6) Concrete Learning Processes
7) The substructure of knowledge usage in the process of the organizational system
8) Organizational Infrastructure for Information Use Organizational Systems Processes / Midterm
9) Concrete Learning Processes
10) Leadership that Reinforces Learning.
11) Inhuman Factors
12) Presentations /Book Talks
13) Presentations /Book Talks
14) Presentations /Book Talks

Sources

Course Notes: The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of learning organizations, Senge, P.M., Doubleday: New York. 1990 Schools That Learn , Senge, Cambron-McCabe, Lucas, Smith, Dutton, & Kleiner, Doubleday: New York . 2000 Is Yours a Learning Organization? Garvin, Edmondson, and Gino Harvard Business Review, 2008. www.hbr.org
References: Yok - None.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance % 0
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Field Work % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Quizzes 2 % 10
Homework Assignments % 0
Presentation % 0
Project 2 % 20
Seminar % 0
Midterms 1 % 30
Preliminary Jury % 0
Final 1 % 40
Paper Submission % 0
Jury % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application 14 3 42
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) 0 0 0
Field Work 0 0 0
Study Hours Out of Class 14 3 42
Presentations / Seminar 0 0 0
Project 0 0 0
Homework Assignments 0 0 0
Quizzes 0 0 0
Preliminary Jury 0 0 0
Midterms 1 22 22
Paper Submission 0 0 0
Jury 0 0 0
Final 1 41 41
Total Workload 189

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) - To be able to develop and deepen current and advanced knowledge in the field with original thought and/or research at the level of expertise based on master's qualifications, and to reach original definitions that will bring innovation to the field.
2) - To be able to comprehend the interdisciplinary interaction that the field is related to; Ability to reach original results by using knowledge that requires expertise in analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating new and complex ideas.
3) -To be able to evaluate and use new knowledge in the field with a systematic approach.
4) - To be able to develop a new idea, method, design and/or application that brings innovation to the field, or to apply a known idea, method, design and/or application to a different field, to research, comprehend, design, adapt and apply an original subject.
5) - Ability to critically analyze, synthesize and evaluate new and complex ideas.
6) - Gaining high-level skills in using research methods in studies related to the field.
7) - To be able to critically examine and develop social relations and the norms that guide these relations, and to manage actions to change them when necessary.
8) - To be able to defend their original views in the discussion of the issues in the field with experts and to establish an effective communication showing their competence in the field.
9) - To be able to communicate and discuss at an advanced level in written, oral and visual using a foreign language at least at the C1 General Level of the European Language Portfolio.
10) - To be able to develop new thoughts and methods in the field by using high-level mental processes such as creative and critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.
11) - To be able to contribute to the process of becoming an information society and maintaining it by introducing scientific, technological, social or cultural advances in the field.
12) - To be able to interact functionally by using strategic decision-making processes in solving the problems encountered in the field.
13) - To be able to contribute to the solution of social, scientific, cultural and ethical problems encountered in issues related to the field and to support the development of these values.
14) - Being able to contribute to the progress in the field by independently carrying out an original work that brings innovations to the field, develops a new idea, method, design and / or application or applies a known idea, method, design and / or application to a different field.
15) - To be able to expand the limits of knowledge in the field by publishing at least one scientific article related to the field in national and/or international refereed journals and/or by producing or interpreting an original work.
16) - Ability to lead in environments that require the resolution of unique and interdisciplinary problems.