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Item Open Access 360-degree feedback : the influence of perceptions of organizational culture on upward appraisal system attitudes(Bilkent University, 2003) Yalçın, MuratAt the threshold of the 21st century, organizations have reinterpreted organizational achievement factors for employees and they have started to emphasize the importance of human resources more in their organizational activities. Moreover, human resources have become a global competition element for organizations in their institutional environments. For that reason, organizations have to manage their human resources in a better way to motivate their employees and to drive their energy into organizational achievement. It is also necessary and critical to evaluate properly the performance of employees for various human resource practices such as promoting, compensating, etc. In other words since organizational achievement can be considered as a synergic sum of individual efforts, performance appraisal for improvement purpose is crucial for such an organisation. Ie army organization. The way that an organization measures and evaluates individual employee performance will directly effect organizational achievement. Therefore, evaluation results should reflect the factual evidences about the performance of organizations at the unitary level. To produce iii objective appraisal results, it is necessary to combine evaluations of all stakeholders involved in the process. It is also important to have positive perception of organization wide on the appraisal methods. This study discusses 360-degree feedback and upward appraisal systems that provide supervisors the opportunity to increase their self-awareness. This will also help them to improve their leadership conducts by having feedback from various sources. The system will also increase individual commitment of subordinates by giving them chance to express their opinions about supervisors, and thus, to participate more in the decision making process which is likely to create a higher level of motivation. However if organizations try to implement 360-degree feedback or upward appraisal system without studying the organizational culture, their effort may be futile. This thesis aims at identifying attitudes toward 360-degrees feedback and upward appraisal systems. It also tries to provide a general profile of organizational climate for Turkish Army through perceptions of Army officers.Item Open Access The background factors that influence learners' English proficiency(Bilkent University, 2011) Güneş, SevimThis study was conducted to explore the relationship between language achievement and starting age of learning English as a foreign language, type of high school, languages known by the learners and spoken in their home environment and learners’ attitudes towards language learning, and also to clarify other possible factors affecting language achievement. The participants of the study were the students of Medicine, Engineering and Law Faculties at Dicle University. To explore the effects of the mentioned factors on language achievement, a questionnaire was completed by 105 participants and the data to clarify the other possible factors affecting language achievement were obtained through interviews with twelve of the participants. The data derived from the questionnaires were analyzed with SPSS and the data obtained from the interviews were analyzed in a qualitative way. The findings obtained from the quantitative analysis present the following results. The results showed that starting to learn English as a foreign language at an early age does not have many advantages on learning. Type of high school is very important for English proficiency, because the students of Anatolian/Science High School have much higher proficiency in English. Knowing more than one language and being in a family environment where more than one language is spoken do not have a significant effect on English proficiency. There is not a correlation between attitudes towards language learning and language proficiency. As the results of qualitative analysis, it was seen that practicing what is learnt in the classroom and having a connection with the foreign language out of the classroom (listening to English songs, watching English movies) are very important to gain a high proficiency in language. On the other hand, grammar-based instruction, experiencing the same teaching styles during the whole learning process, lack of environment to practice foreign language and a high anxiety level cause problems in the learning process.Item Open Access Eating at fast food restaurants: an application of Fishbein's Behavioral Intention Model(Bilkent University, 1992) Yazıcıoğlu, MuratIn this study Fishbein's Behavioral Intention Model is applied to Bilkent Unive r s i t y students' attitudes toward eating at three different fast food restaurants in A n kara in order to analyze their intentions and behaviors as c o n sumers and reach implications for these restau r a n t s in a m a r k e t i n g context. The study is b a s ically c o n ducted through a survey whi c h required the completion of a qu e s t i o n n a i re m a i n l y consi s t i n g of questions in Likert and Semantic D i f f e rential format. The results show that intentions to vis i t a p a rticular fast food r e staurant is mu c h mo r e in control of personal attitudes while in v i s i t i n g frequency the s u bjective norms tend to gain more importance.