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Course Unit Title Course Unit Code Type of Course Unit Level of Course Unit Year of Study Semester ECTS Credits
Crisis Communication HIT334 Elective Bachelor's degree 3 Spring 3

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Zeynep Benan DONDURUCU
Associate Prof. Dr. Aybike ÖZEL
Research Assistant Dr. Deniz KEBA EKİNCİ

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) defines crisis
2) Lists the stages of the crisis management process
3) Lists the causes of the crisis
4) Examines the effects of organizational and individual crisis
5) implement crisis management techniques.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

  Program Competencies
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Learning Outcomes
1 Middle High High Middle High Middle High High High
2 High High High Middle Middle High High Middle Middle
3 Middle High High Middle High High Middle High High
4 Middle Middle High High Middle High Middle Middle Middle
5 High Middle High Middle High High Middle High High

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

nothing

Course Contents

Crisis definition, meaning, analysis of the crisis, crisis systems, sources of the crisis, which caused the crisis to recognize the internal and external environmental factors, the process of crisis, crisis, causes, symptoms, crisis management process, change and adaptation mechanisms of crisis development, crisis management approaches available, the concept of stress and its relationship with the crisis, organizational stress and organizational stress management, organizational sources of stress, the effects of stress on the individual and the organization, the special techniques to cope with stress individually.

Weekly Schedule

1) Subject of the course, homework, lessons will be given information about the processing of resource books and courses.
2) Crisis: Sources, types
3) Phases of crisis management -1
4) Phases of crisis management -2
5) Phases of crisis management -3
6) Identify the factors that led to the crisis
7) To improve the mechanism of compliance
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Stress factors and the crisis
10) Organizational stress
11) The effects of organizational and individual stress
12) Coping with organizational stress and individual stress -1
13) Coping with organizational stress and individual stress -2
14) Coping with organizational stress and individual stress -3
15) Crisis management techniques
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Salim Kadıbeşegil, Kriz Geliyorum Der! Kriz İletişimi ve Yönetimi, İstanbul: MediaCat Kitapları, 2002.
2- Mine Şimşek Narbay, Kriz İletişimi, Ankara: Nobel Yayın Dağıtım, 2006.
3- Richard Luecke, Kriz Yönetimi, İstanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları,2009.
4- Mehmet Seyfettin Erol ve Ertan Efegil (Ed.), Krizler ve Kriz Yönetimi: Temel Yaklaşım, Aktörler, Örnek Olaylar, Ankara: Kolektif Barış Platin Basın Yayıncılık, 2012.
5- Melek Tüz, Kriz Döneminde İşletme Yönetimi, Bursa: Ekin Basım Yayıncılık, 1996.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Group Study
4) Case Study


Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade

30%

Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade

70%

Total

100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required