Information Package / Course Catalogue
Management Psychology
Course Code: İKY222
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Short Cycle (Associate's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: Students are required, as part of the course "İMEU201 – Workplace Vocational Training" (30 ECTS) offered in the fourth semester, to undertake and successfully complete workplace vocational training for a minimum of 70 working days at enterprises designated in accordance with the provisions of the Aydın Adnan Menderes University Directive on Workplace Vocational Training.
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 3
Objectives of the Course

The lecture examines the psychological nature of the management process by focusing on the human being and his/her psychology, which is the main object of the process.

Course Content

By introducing the discipline of management psychology in relation to other disciplines, it focuses on the nature of the normal and pathological distinction in management processes. By focusing on the examination of factors such as personality formation and leadership at the normal-pathological border; It allows the investigation of productive and non-productive /destructive behaviors that occur in organizations.

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Learning Outcomes
1.To know the discipline of management psychology in relation with other disciplines.
2.Recognize this boundary by focusing on the nature of the normal and pathological distinction in management processes.
3.To examine factors such as personality formation and leadership within the normal-pathological border.
4.To investigate the productive and non-productive/destructive behaviors in organizations.
5.Examining the leadership styles and recognizing the pathological aspects of leadership together with modern leadership theories.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Towards a negative ontology of leadership, Simon Kelly.
2.Örgütsel Davranışın Karanlık Yüzü Ve Türkçe Literatürün İncelenmesine Yönelik Bir Araştırma, Gül BİNBOĞA, Ercan EĞİN, Asena GÜLOVA.
3.The Neglect of Leadership in Psychoanalysis, Kerry J. Sulcowitz.
4.Örgütsel Davranış Ve Yönetim Psikolojisi, Şimşek vd (Ed.)., Eğitim Yayınevi.
5.Örgütsel Davranış Ve Yönetim Psikolojisi, Erol Eren, Beta Yayınevi.
6.Yönetim Psikolojisi, Özge Kocakula (in Press).
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The field of Management Psychology, its field of study and its relationship with other disciplines
Week 2 - Theoretical
The distinction between 'normal' and pathological in the formation of personality
Week 3 - Theoretical
Personality Disorders-I: Hysterical Personality Constructs
Week 4 - Theoretical
Personality Disorders-II: Psychotic Personality Constructs
Week 5 - Theoretical
Organizational Pathology: Syndromes
Week 6 - Theoretical
Productive and non-productive/destructive behaviors in organizations.
Week 7 - Theoretical
Leadership Theories
Week 8 - Theoretical
Leadership Styles
Week 9 - Theoretical
Pathological Leadership and Leadership Psychoanalysis
Week 10 - Theoretical
Organizational Disfonctions
Week 11 - Theoretical
Organizational Culture Erosion
Week 12 - Theoretical
Pathological Behaviors at Work
Week 13 - Theoretical
Organizational case studies from Turkey and the World-I
Week 14 - Theoretical
Organizational case studies from Turkey and the World-II
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Presentation1%10
Assignment1%10
Quiz1%20
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory141356
Assignment1314
Presentation 1112
Quiz1213
Final Examination19110
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)75
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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