PSY633 PERSONALITY AT WORK: THEORIES AND ASSESSMENT
| Course Code: | 2330633 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (0.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Psychology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. YONCA TOKER GÜLTAŞ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, the students will learn:
- contemporary personality theories.
- classical and new measurement systems.
- controversial theories and assessment.
At the end of this course, the students will gain skills related to:
- surveying the literature on personality.
- proposing a novel research question.
- developing implicit personality test questions.
- evaluating findings in the literature.
Course Content
Focuses on normal personality in relation to organizational criteria,such as job performance,work attitudes,counterproductive behavior,and leadership,and on the validity of different types of assessments,such as self-report rating scales,Situational Judgement Tests,and implicit personality assessments (i.e Conditional Reasoning Tests).
Course Learning Outcomes
Students, who passed the course satisfactorily will be able to:
- describe contemporary personality theories such as trait theories, need theories, situational specificity and the social-cognitive approach to studying personality.
- describe how certain personality characteristics relate to work criteria such as performance, counterproductive work behavior, leadership, teamwork and the like.
- compare and contrast self-report explicit personality assessments and implicit personality assessments in terms of how each relate to outcomes.
- develop Conditional Reasoning Test items.
At the end of this course, the students will gain skills related to:
- surveying the literature on personality.
- proposing a novel research question.
- developing implicit personality test questions.
- evaluating findings in the literature.