COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BUSINESS ETHICS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PINAR ÖZKAN

Offered to

Business Administration
Business Administration (Evening)

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to help students to understand the concepts and practices of ethical thinking, to adopt the rules of ethics, to use and follow them, to be aware of what they are, how they are formed and how behavior in the business world is affected by them. Also it aims enabling businesses to understand the need to develop and maintain relationships with their stakeholders in line with business ethics and social responsibility, and to learn the ways, methods and tools of this.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students can explain the concepts of ethics, morality, business ethics and corporate social responsibility and understand the relationship between them.
2   Students will be able to explain the organizational and individual factors affecting the ethical decision making process.
3   Students will be able to define ethical standards and create business ethics and social responsibility policies of businesses and question them when necessary.
4   Students will understand the role of business ethics and social responsibilities of business organizations in creating and developing corporate identity.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Ethics and Business Ethics: Definition, Principles, Approaches
2 Historical Development of Business Ethics
3 Development of Business Ethics in Turkey
4 Responsibility Areas of Businesses and Corporate Social Responsibility in Businesses
5 Theoretical Approaches to Business Ethics (Result-Based and Cause-Based Approaches)
6 Business Ethics Issues Related to the Business Environment (Market and Competitors, Natural Environment)
7 Business Ethics Issues Related to the Business Environment (Technological and Legal Environment)
8 Business Ethics Issues Related to Business Functions (Marketing and Production)
9 Business Ethics Issues Related to Business Functions (Accounting and Finance)
10 Business Ethics Issues Related to Business Functions (Management and Human Resources)
11 Ethics Management: Establishment and Management of Institutional Ethics Structure, Process and Culture
12 Consumer/Customer Ethics (Dimensions and Importance)
13 Case study
14 Student assignment presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

Sabuncuoğlu, Zeyyat (Ed) (2011), Işletme Etiği, Beta Yayıncılık. Istanbul.
Tekin, Zeliha (2020), Iş ve Işletme Etiği,Dora Yayıncılık, Bursa.
Torlak Ömer ve Tiltay, M. Ali (2017), Pazarlama Ahlakı. Beta Yayıncılık, Istanbul.
Ferrell, O.C., Fraedrich, John, and Ferrell, Linda (2008). Business Ethics, Ethical Decision Making & Cases, Boston, MA: Prentice Hall.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Powerpoint supported lecture, case studies

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.50 +MTE * 0.50
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

pinar.ozkan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be determined according to the course program.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparing assignments 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 110

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.1111
LO.211
LO.311
LO.411

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