COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ETHIC IN ECONOMY AND WORK LIFE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 3135 ETHIC IN ECONOMY AND WORK LIFE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HATICE ŞEBNEM SEÇER

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (Evening)
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

To internalisation of ethic behavior and approach in economic activities and working life

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explain concepts of morality, individual and social morality, ang general ethic
2   To adopt importance of ethic behavior, application and approach in economy anf working life
3   To introduce corporate social responsibilities areas
4   To introduce of national and international legislation about
5   To know policies and strategies about preventing unethical behaviors and applications

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The concepts of morality, ethic and unethic behavior
2 Historical frame of relationships between ethic and economy
3 Work ethic, business ethic and approaches
4 Globalization and ethic problems
5 Corporate Social Responsibility and Ethic
6 Ethic Behavior and Applications in working life/private sector
7 Ethic Behavior and Applications in working life/public sector
8 Examination
9 Examination
10 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Discrimination
11 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Sexual harassment
12 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Mobbing, bulling, workplace terror
13 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Corruption, bribe, tax evasion, unfair copmpetition
14 Occupational, Organizational and International Ethics Codes

Recomended or Required Reading

Adrian Furnham and John Taylor, Dark Side of Workplace, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Max Weber and Talcott Parsons The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, 2010.

Barbara G. Cox, Robert W. Hunt and Matthew B. Hun, Ethics at Work (NetEffect Series), 2004.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Class participation
Debate
Papers
Examination

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Preparing presentations 1 1 1
Reading 1 3 3
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 102

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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