IB4611 Business EthicsBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs MATHEMATICSGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
MATHEMATICS
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
IB4611 Business Ethics Fall 3 0 3 6
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

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 : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi AHMET AYDEMİR
Course Lecturer(s): Dr. BİLGE UYAN ATAY
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: The purpose of this course is to enable students
to consider the role of ethics in business administration
in a complex, dynamic, global environment. Specific
course objectives include:
1. To recognize ethical issues in business situations.
2. To apply several important frameworks for moral
reasoning to complex business issues.
3. To appreciate the role of ethics as central in
business decision making.
4. To develop a general management perspective that
includes an ability to formulate, analyze, and
defend decisions in ethical terms.
5. To analyze the ethical issues that appear in other
Darden courses.
6. To allow students to critically examine their own
ethics and test them in conversation with peers.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Defines business ethics and identifies morality in business.
II. Imparts the reasoning and analytical skills needed to apply ethical concepts to business decisions.
III. Identifies the moral issues involved in the management of specific problem areas in business.
IV. Understands the social, technological, and natural environments within which moral issues in business arise.
V. Describes the unethical practices in the marketplace.
VI. Identifies the unethical behavior of the individuals in the workplace.

Course Content

1st Week: Ethics and Business
2nd Week: Ethical Principles in Business
3rd Week: Ethical Principles in Business (continued)
4th Week: The Business System: Government, Markets, and International Trade
5th Week: Ethics in the Marketplace
6th Week: Ethics and the Environment
7th Week: Midterm
8th Week: Ethics and the Environment (continued)
9th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
10th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
11th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing (continued)
12th Week: The Ethics of Job Discrimination
13th Week: The Individual in the Organization
14th Week: The Individual in the Organization (continued)

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) 1st Week: Ethics and Business
2) 2nd Week: Ethical Principles in Business
3) 3rd Week: Ethical Principles in Business (continued)
4) 4th Week: The Business System: Government, Markets, and International Trade
5) 5th Week: Ethics in the Marketplace
6) 6th Week: Ethics and the Environment
7) 7th Week: Review
8) 8th Week: Ethics and the Environment (continued)
9) 9th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
10) 10th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing
11) 11th Week: The Ethics of Consumer Production and Marketing (continued)
12) 12th Week: The Ethics of Job Discrimination
13) 13th Week: The Individual in the Organization
14) 14th Week: The Individual in the Organization (continued)

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Required Text:
Business Ethics (2006, 6th edition), by Manuel G. Velasquez, Prentice Hall.
References: Optional Text:
Managing Business Ethics (2011), by Linda K. Trevino and Katherina A. Nelson, Wiley.

İş Hayatında Etik (2007), by Suna Tevrüz, Beta Yayınları, İstanbul.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 40
Total % 80
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 80

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 40
Study Hours Out of Class 15 54
Midterms 1 2
Final 1 2
Total Workload 98

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) To have a grasp of basic mathematics, applied mathematics and theories and applications in Mathematics
2) To be able to understand and assess mathematical proofs and construct appropriate proofs of their own and also define and analyze problems and to find solutions based on scientific methods,
3) To be able to apply mathematics in real life with interdisciplinary approach and to discover their potentials,
4) To be able to acquire necessary information and to make modeling in any field that mathematics is used and to improve herself/himself, 4
5) To be able to tell theoretical and technical information easily to both experts in detail and non-experts in basic and comprehensible way,
6) To be familiar with computer programs used in the fields of mathematics and to be able to use at least one of them effectively at the European Computer Driving Licence Advanced Level,
7) To be able to behave in accordance with social, scientific and ethical values in each step of the projects involved and to be able to introduce and apply projects in terms of civic engagement,
8) To be able to evaluate all processes effectively and to have enough awareness about quality management by being conscious and having intellectual background in the universal sense, 4
9) By having a way of abstract thinking, to be able to connect concrete events and to transfer solutions, to be able to design experiments, collect data, and analyze results by scientific methods and to interfere,
10) To be able to continue lifelong learning by renewing the knowledge, the abilities and the competencies which have been developed during the program, and being conscious about lifelong learning,
11) To be able to adapt and transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of mathematics ; such as algebra, analysis, number theory, mathematical logic, geometry and topology to the level of secondary school,
12) To be able to conduct a research either as an individual or as a team member, and to be effective in each related step of the project, to take role in the decision process, to plan and manage the project by using time effectively.