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
IYO 7062 BUSINESS ETHICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Management and Organization Non-Thesis (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ETHEM DUYGULU

Offered to

Management and Organization Non-Thesis (Evening)

Course Objective

It is to help students understand the concepts and practices of ethical thought, to adopt the rules of ethics, to become aware of the need to use and follow them, what they are, how they are formed and how behavior in the business world is affected by them. To ensure that businesses understand the need to develop and maintain relationships with their stakeholders in line with business ethics and social responsibility and learn the ways, methods and tools.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Explain the concepts of ethics, morality, business ethics and corporate social responsibility and understand the relationship between them.
2   To be able to explain organizational and individual factors affecting the ethical decision-making process.
3   To be able to define ethical standards and to create and question the business ethics and social responsibility policies of businesses.
4   To understand the role of business ethics and social responsibilities of business organizations in creating and developing corporate identity.
5   Necessitate information and acquire needed information
6   Build, develop, apply and assess the results of a method to solve a problem within a scientific research context

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 the phenomenon of ethics
3 Development of the concept of ethics in Turkey
4 Areas of Responsibility 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 Management)
11 Ethics Management: Establishing and Managing Corporate Ethical Structure, Process and Culture
12 Ethics Management: Relations with Stakeholders
13 Case study I
14 Case study II

Recomended or Required Reading

All kinds of scientific resources related to the course.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The topics will be examined and discussed both theoretically and with case studies, and the results of the field or application study will be presented at the seminar.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students are evaluated based on their participation in class discussions, presentation of midterm and final assignments, and seminar participation, as well as midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Rules related to midterm and final exams are: Questions are not general but specific, case study analyses should be made by using of proper terminology. Following points will be considered on this matter. Ability to use terminology properly, degree of consistency between cause and effect relationships of concepts. The solution to the problems should be well grounded, scientific, logical and convincing. Readings related to the course and having a grasp of the topics are important.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ethem.duygulu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Preparing assignments 14 2 28
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 130

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.41111
LO.511
LO.611

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