Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility (MGMT 410)

2022 Fall
Sabancı Business School
Management(MGMT)
3
6
Ozan Duygulu oduygulu@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Undergraduate
ORG301
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CONTENT

The course is planned to equip the students with a general understanding of how modern business organizations and society continuously interact to form various relationships. Specifically, the course aims to provide an insight regarding the theories of corporation and its stakeholders, corporate governance, business ethics, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility. The course aims to achieve a theoretical understanding through making sure the students attain a practical understanding of the issues covered in the class

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • At the end of the course the students should be able to: 1. Comprehend how and why some firms achieve and sustain superior market performance as measured by shareholder value but under the guidance of the normative subjects of ethics and social responsibility. 2. Demonstrate the relationship between the disciplines of economics, political science, law and ethics 3. Apply course frameworks to real world phenomena.

PROGRAMME OUTCOMES


1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others.

2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice.

3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself.

4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means.

5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.


1. Have an understanding of economics and main functional areas of management

2. Have a basic all-around knowledge in humanities, science, mathematics, and literature

3. Have a basic knowledge of law and ethics, awareness of social and ethical responsibilities

4. Work effectively in teams and environments characterized by people of diverse educational, social and cultural backgrounds

5. Demonstrate proficiency in oral and written communications in English

6. Pursue open minded inquiry and appreciate the importance of research as an input into management practice; thus, a.know how to access, interpret and analyze data and information by using current technologies b.use the results from analyses to make informed decisions

7. Use office softwares for written communication, presentation, and data analysis

8. Demonstrate awareness that business settings present different opportunities and challenges for managers due to environmental/contextual differences that arise in economic, political, cultural, legal-regulatory domains