ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
INE4009 | Engineering Management | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Instructor ÖZLEM KANGA |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. MUSTAFA ÖZBAYRAK Prof. Dr. FAİK TUNÇ BOZBURA Instructor ÖZLEM KANGA |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course is designed to develop an understanding of the roles, responsibilities, and skills required by individuals (managers and non-managers) in today’s changing organizations by analyzing the characteristics of successful managers and organizations. This process will also develop an awareness of the environmental conditions and pressures facing today’s managers and organizations. Specifically, students will become acquainted with the language of business management and the application of key concepts and theories to the “real world.” |
The students who have succeeded in this course; - Explains what is ethical and what is not. - Describes the nature of managerial decision making, leadership and strategy. - Identifies the factors that influence managers’ choice of an organizational structure. - Defines importance of motivation in team working. |
The course focuses on Managers and managing as well as the evaluation of management thought. Ethics & Social Responsibility, the roles of managers, organizational strategies and organizational Culture, Motivation and Leadership are also discussed. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Managers and managing | |
2) | Evaluation of Management Thought | |
3) | Evaluation of Management Thought | |
4) | Ethics & Social Responsibility | |
5) | Global environment | |
6) | Manager as a decision maker | |
7) | Manager as a planner and strategists | |
8) | Review of management history, Midterm Exam | |
9) | Functional Strategies: Value Chain Management | |
10) | Functional Strategies: Value Chain Management | |
11) | Managing organizational structure & Culture | |
12) | Control & Change Management | |
13) | Motivation | |
14) | Leadership |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Textbook: Chang, C. M. (2016). Engineering Management: Meeting the Global Challenges. Second edition. |
References: | Current issues of Financial Times, Fortune, Business Week, The Economist, Harvard Business Review, Business Strategy Review and those of local business magazines Power, Capital and Platin, as well as the business section of daily local newspapers. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Quizzes | 5 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 35 |
Final | 1 | % 45 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 55 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 45 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 40 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 84 |
Quizzes | 10 | 15 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 |
Total Workload | 143 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |