Scientific approach for a happy and successful professional life
The five elements of the PQ Model have different neurobiological and behavioral correlates which are dynamically applicable to professional conditions.
For the article "A Multidisciplinary, Psychomedical Model for Behavior at Work: Professional Quotient (PQ)” in the Practice Makes Perfect
column of the Canadian Society of Industrial and Organisational Psychology (CSIOP) newsletter October 2017 issue, please click here.
Dr. T. Hakan Yoney started his academic career at the University of Marmara School of Medicine in 1986 and became a professor
of psychiatry in 2001. He worked at the National Institutes of Mental Health (Bethesda, USA) on brain mechanisms of mental disorders.
He has focused his work on human behavior in professional life and he was the consultant and supervisor of psychological services for
the first Employee Assistance Program in Turkey for many years. He developed the concept of Professional Quotient with
the aim of integrating brain sciences, medicine, and behavioral sciences into organizational behavior practices. Professional Quotient
framework illuminates the fundamental mechanisms that drive individual, team, and organizational growth and performance. He is interested in
... well-being issues at work,
mental skills that are involved in professional success, their neural correlates, and how these skills can be developed.
He has two published books:
1. Yoney, Hakan. Mutlu ve Başarılı Bir İş Yaşamı için
Profesyonel Zeka PQ. (Professional Quotient PQ for a Happy and Successful Professional Life) Remzi Bookstore, 1st Edition 2007, 2nd Renewed
Edition 2014.
2. Tıpta Uzmanlık Seçimi. (Medical Specialty Choice) Hakan
Yoney, Dilek Gogas (Editors), Marmara University Publications, 2009.
Email: info@professionalquotient.com