COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ETHICS IN ECONOMY AND WORKING LIFE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CEK 3031 ETHICS IN ECONOMY AND WORKING 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
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (Evening)

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. (1,2, 6,)
2   To adopt importance of ethic behavior, application and approach in economy anf working life (1,2, 3, 6, 7, 8)
3   To introduce corporate social responsibilities areas. (1,2, 3, 6, 8)
4   To introduce of national and international legislation about (1,2, 3, 6, 8)
5   To know policies and strategies about preventing unethical behaviors and applications (1,2, 3, 6, 7, 8)

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 Behavior and Applications in working life/public sector
6 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Discrimination
7 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Sexual harassment
8 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Mobbing, bulling, workplace terror
9 Preventing unethical behaviors and applications: Corruption, bribe, tax evasion, unfair copmpetition.
10 Occupational, Organizational and International Ethics Codes
11 Prevention of Unethical Behavior at Work: Corruption, bribery, tax evasion, unfair competition, defamation.
12 Ethic contracts on professional, organizational and international levels.

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


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)

E-mail: ozlem.cakir@deu.edu.tr
0(232) 4120289

Office Hours

Every Day 15.30-17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 3 36
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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