The purpose of this course is to provide information about business and its basic concepts like manager, management, aspects of management, and to develop their entrepreneurial and managerial vision.
-Lectures, reading, research, and class discussion to follow the latest news
Principle Sources
Kadri Mirze, İşletme, Literatür Yayıncılık, 2010
Mümin Ertürk, İşletme Biliminin Temel İlkeleri, Beta, 2009
İsmet Mucuk, Modern İşletmecilik, Türkmen, 2005
Other Sources
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Business Concept, Business Science, Business as a System
Oral presentation
2. Week
Business Types
Oral presentation, reading , discussion
3. Week
Globalization and Business
Oral presentation, reading , discussion
4. Week
Globalization and Business
Oral presentation, reading , discussion
5. Week
Human Resources Sub-system
Oral presentation, reading , case studies, discussion
6. Week
Accounting Sub-system
Oral presentation, reading , case studies, discussion
7. Week
Accounting Sub-system
Oral presentation, reading , case studies, discussion
8. Week
Finance Sub-System
Oral presentation, reading , case studies, discussion
9. Week
Midterm
Midterm
10. Week
Midterm
Midterm
11. Week
Marketing Sub-System
Oral presentation, reading , case studies, discussion
12. Week
Marketing Sub-System
Oral presentation, reading , case studies, discussion
13. Week
Production Sub-System
Oral presentation, reading , case studies, discussion
14. Week
Supply Sub-System and General Evaluation
Oral presentation, reading , case studies, discussion
15. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
16. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
17. Week
Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
25
Quizzes
2
25
Final Exam
1
50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Demonstrates a basic level of understanding in related disciplines (such as economics, sociology, psychology, quantitative sciences, etc.) that form a foundation for business administration, and makes use of and applies them to the field of business.
PO-2
Applies mathematical, scientific and social knowledge to business problems.
PO-3
Demonstrates a basic level of understanding in business functions and management (such as management, production, marketing, accounting, finance, human resources, behavioural sciences, etc.) and interprets the theoretical arguments focusing on interactions between the actors and the cultures in the field.
PO-4
Determines how to use acquired theoretical and practical knowledge and skills related to business in application and field analysis and applies them.
PO-5
Identifies and evaluates the relations in the field of business; describes the problems and presents analytical solutions through modelling and interpreting (critical thinking).
PO-6
Designs a business process in any functional stage that complies with identified objectives.
PO-7
Develops effective business communication skills (written-verbal/formal-informal).
PO-8
Owns effective working skills individually or on a team in business and multidisciplinary fields.
PO-9
Acts with a sense of professional and ethical responsibility.
PO-10
Improves effective verbal and written communication skills in Turkish, and acquires competence in minimum one foreign language.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
- To define and emphasize place of business in the economic and social life
LO-2
To explain businesses in terms of input, output, processes, environment, systems and subsystems; to contact them with each other and business
LO-3
To describe the interaction of business with the environment, to define systems, subsystems, open/closed systems, to analyze businesses within system aspect
LO-4
To define main functions of business like marketing, finance, human resources, logistics, to contact them with business main system
LO-5
To introduce the students basic business literature, to remind the main concepts like as competition, entrepreneurship, size
LO-6
To define the business as the main component of economic life and to contact with the environmental actors (government, politics, education, unions, customers) and Business.
LO-7
To describe the business with all stakeholders
LO-8
To prepare the students to future lessons (marketing, finance, accounting, human resources, logistics, behavioral sciences), to explain the importance and relation with business of this lessons
