This course aims to introduce and develop the main principles of production and operations management. The course investigates the key elements in managing the resources required to produce goods and services, and how these elements constitute an essential part of the strategic management decisions within organizations. The students will gain practical experience in formulating basic models of operations management problems. A portion of these problems will be solved using available software packages, whereas others will be solved manually using appropriate techniques. The use of decision support tools will enable students to apply the basic principles of operations management to actual problems in the business environment. In addition, the course equips students with the basic knowledge and skills necessary to grasp more advanced models to be covered in future courses. Topics include facility location, layout planning, inventory management, project management, short-term scheduling, linear programming and aggregate planning, as well as a brief introduction to MRP, MRPII, and ERP.

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This course examines financial matters within the firm and the financial environment in which the firm exists. The course demonstrates how the modern theory of finance provides a framework for practical and skilful financial management of a firm. Upon the successful completion of this course, students will have an understanding of the financial environment and financial markets and instruments in order to determine how, where and when to raise financial capital to fuel economic projects. They will be able to develop systematic, analytical decision-making skills to choose among alternative projects and investments and be able to interpret and utilize the firm's financial statements to monitor, measure and enhance the firm's performance.

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The aim of this course is to develop further understanding of the context, concepts and techniques of accounting in its role of providing management information for various planning, control and decision-making purposes. Students are expected to develop an awareness of the interrelationships and implications of behavioral economics and quantitative aspects and other influences upon managerial accounting activity and build up important techniques in cost and managerial accounting. The course covers specific problems of costing systems and use of accounting information for short-run and long-run managerial decisions. The subjects include standard costing systems and variance analysis, performance evaluation, short-run decisions and capital expenditure decisions.

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This course aims to introduce the main principles of quality management and the quality paradigms. Quality policy and implementing it by means of quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality improvement will be widely discussed throughout the course. The course broadens students' conceptions of TQM, which has been described as the key to success for world-class manufacturing and service companies. The tools to implement and customize quality improvement processes in different companies and institutions and the quality awards being given worldwide are included in the topics. Case studies and projects (such as using NMBA or EFQM to evaluate a firm) will be carried out to enable students' active participation, thus ensuring recognition of the benefits of this approach.

The aim of this course is to provide an understanding of the fundamentals of interpersonal communication and the essential knowledge and approaches for its application in business organizations. The course will focus on the importance of communicative action within organizations, qualities of information and how it is diffused, information flows and its consequences for collective problem solving, and analysis and improvement of these flows. Within this focus, the course investigates information systems at different conceptual levels, informal nature of information, and how the meaning is carried by information.

This course is designed as an internship for the 3rd and 4th year Business Administration department students. Students are expected to gain business/work life experience in a company approved by the Department Head. At the end of the internship program, students are expected to write a report about their experience and submit it to the Course Coordinator.

The aim of this course is to explore the main issues that influence the strategic decision-making process by managers in organizations; to identify the needs of the main stakeholders and to reconcile these needs with environmental and internal constraints. The course also analyses ways to evaluate alternative strategy choices and various means to ensure that appropriate organizational changes are implemented. During the course, case discussions will be used to provide the students with the necessary skills to anticipate major issues and challenges of strategic management in organizations. Furthermore, in order to stress the holistic nature of strategic management, students will be asked to develop a case based on primary and secondary data they have collected about an organization. In this case study, students will conduct a SWOT analysis and after determining the problem will propose a viable strategy. Additionally, during the course, creating and sustaining competitive advantage by small businesses will be studied. In this vein clusters and industrial districts will be evaluated.

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Customer relationship management is rapidly becoming an important new initiative for most companies when trying to improve their relationship marketing programs. Customer relationship management can be described as a comprehensive set of processes and technologies for managing the relationships with potential and current customers and business partners across marketing, sales, and service areas regardless of the channel of distribution. Instead of adopting the traditional adversarial stance against customers and suppliers, many leading companies are now developing close relationships with them. They realize the power of systematically building the customer's business as a means to adding value for end-customers, and lowering system-wide costs in the supply chain. These are done through a variety of relationship marketing programs, including customer partnering, supplier partnering, alliances and internal partnering. In this process the old functional silos are giving way to multifunctional teams in order to serve customers in a coordinated and cohesive manner.

The course aims to develop an understanding of how knowledge is produced, transferred and shared in organizations, cooperative strategies and how knowledge can be utilized as a competitive resource. Basically the course addresses the emerging world of knowledge workers and knowledge-based companies. The students will learn about the concepts and role of knowledge management in organizations. They will also identify knowledge management in specific environments, i.e. in profession-dominated fields. Both lectures and classes will take place in a participative context in which students are expected to prepare beforehand by reading and analyzing the pre-assigned reading material. During the course, case discussions and sessions with guest speakers from professional service firms will help the students to develop skills necessary to anticipate the nature of the emerging world of knowledge-based companies.

The aim of this course is to explore the concept of innovation management and investigate how it relates to overall organization and business strategy. During the course individual and institutional level antecedents of innovation will be studied. In this vein the course will cover topics like innovation, entrepreneur, collective entrepreneur, national innovation systems, venture capital, appropriation and commercialization, innovation clusters, techno parks, open and closed innovation models.

There is no doubt that how we live, interact and even conduct business today, has been shaped by the digital transformation that surrounds us. Recent digital developments such as analytics, big data, hyper-connectivity, mobility, and social media are putting pressure on companies to rethink their customer relationships, internal processes, and value propositions. So how do business leaders today, and in the years to come, keep their organizations responsive, relevant and ultimately competitive? Digital Strategy is designed to equip students to confidently help conceive, lead and execute digital initiatives and develop new business models for existing and insurgent organizations. The basic premise of the course is that the digital revolution is rapidly transforming the fundamental nature of many companies in a wide range of industries; and executives, entrepreneurs and general managers need to understand the economics, technology paradigms and management practices of innovating in digital-centric businesses to ensure corporate and personal success.

The objective of the course is to introduce contemporary approaches to diagnose and define the business and management problems and decision making process . Similar to many areas, business, economic and social environment needs to be questioned continuously to make accurate decisions especially when the change is fast and unavoidable. Questioning is the basic step which leads to diagnose the real problem. Diagnosing the real problem is the vital step to bring the right solution. All these phases in decision making process can be achieved either by common sense or by conducting a scientific research. In this course the contemporary approaches to analyse the business world is overviewed and the steps of conducting a scientific research is explained. Provide the background knowledge for planning the steps of scientific research process starting from literature survey and problem definition up to the derivations of conclusions from the statistical analysis results. Designing how the steps of the research will be conducted like choosing among the alternative types of the investigation, data collection and analysis methods and then conducting the research according to the selected methods. Developing the theoretical framework to demonstrate the research model, formulating and testing the hpothesis of the model. Making the operational definition of variables stated in hypothesis, preparation of the questionnaire or by using the selected data collection methodology collecting the data. Analysing the collected data by using Excel and SPSS software and conducting the tests of the hypothesis formulated to a answer the researh question.Choosing the appropriate statistical tools to analyse the data collected. Applying contemporary analytical tools, descriptive and inferential statistical tools and performing multivariate data analysis.

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Strategic management sets the foundation for success in tomorrow's marketplace while competing to win in today's marketplace. The course objective is to enable students to develop the skills to formulate a successful strategy. The course will work mainly with case studies. The first part of the session will be the presentation of a business case by a group: the second part will consist of discussions. Groups of a maximum of four students will prepare two cases at home and present them in class.

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How should your organization be structured to maximize effectiveness? What influence tactics can you use when you do not have the formal authority to tell someone what to do? How can you motivate employees to go above and beyond the call of duty to get the job done? This course focuses on individuals and groups within diverse organizations and on organizational structure and processes. In this course, we will explore the theories, concepts, terminology and skill relevant to the role of the professional manager. Topics include planning, organizing, controlling, leadership, motivation, change and transforming business processes. We will explore current trends that affect today's manager using various media coverage that goes beyond the textbook. Students will have the opportunity to gain insight through internet exercises, case studies and other participatory activities.

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The course is designed to present a broad overview of the fundamentals of international business and trade. We would like to familiarize the participants with the basic terminology, key concepts and related issues of International Business and Trade.

Just like the monarchies that faded away at the turn of the last century, uni-block large enterprises are giving way to `shamrock` organizations based on loosely bound, self-sufficient yet strongly integrated network units, each acting like a small business. Your professional ambitions might lead you towards a corporate career in those new economy establishments or you might choose to satisfy the material and/or cognitive needs of your `free soul` by a private venture: in either case you must master one essential art: entrepreneurship. The above vision delineates the conceptual framework of this course, which we call `businessing`. Based on the motto, `every person is a business person`, this course is intended to help the attendees develop an entrepreneurial approach to a series of steps extending from idea generation to planning, fund raising and management.

This course provides students with an introduction to many different types of quantitative research methods and statistical techniques. Wherever there is uncertainty, quantitative methods are statistical methods, and the course gives a good grounding in statistics for business and economics. Students learn how to define research problems, theory testing, causal inference, and design research instruments. A range of statistical techniques and methods that are available for empirical research will be explored.

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The aim of the course is to reveal the motives and patterns underlying firm behavior in different contexts. The major concern of strategic management theorists in relation to strategic choice, competitiveness, diversity, competition, cooperation and structuring of markets will be discussed from economic and sociological perspectives. Traditionally, strategic management was considered to be a practice experienced only by big firms. However, today, we have enough many theories and tools to apply the concept of strategy to small and medium sized firms, organizations of different character than production (services, entertainment, education..) and organizations with a different aim than profit (NGOs). Furthermore, traditionally, strategy was studied as an object where no emphasis was put on the processes where strategy is enacted, adapted and practiced. Currently, the field of strategic management has gone through a vast transformation where our understanding of strategy, strategizing and firm has been transformed as well. During the lectures based on transaction costs, resource-based view, new institutionalism, social networks and strategy-as-practice, students will be able to evaluate why some firms behave in a certain way, what influences their choice of a specific strategy, why they change their strategies.

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The scope of classical philosophy of science encompasses asking fundamental questions about the epistemology of scientific discovery and reasoning: the limits of human knowledge about the external reality and the legitimate ways of producing this knowledge through verifying and interpreting the evidence that supports the scientific theories. This course aims to extend this scope to ontology- asking questions about what kinds of things exist in the material world and their relations; methodology- questions about testing theories; and sociological questions about the role scientific institutions, political powers, government, business organizations, NGOs and public understanding of science during the production of scientific knowledge. We will consider not only what pertains to scientific culture, but also how this culture is embedded into the social structure and culture of the everyday social life. We will focus on social science philosophy.

Pazarlamanın temel unsurları ve işletmelerin müşteri odaklı pazarlama faaliyetleri kapsamında tüketici ihtiyaçlarını karşılamaya yönelik yaptıkları çalışmalar anlatılır.

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Bu dersin amacı, öğrencilerin işletme çevresi ve iş dünyasının temelleri hakkında bilgi sahibi olmalarını sağlamaktır. Bu dersin tamamlanmasıyla öğrenciler, sistem olarak organizasyonların doğası hakkında bilgi sahibi olmalı, işletme girişimlerinin içinde yer aldığı çevreyi anlamalı, farklı işletme fonksiyonları-işletme kararları ve onların çözümlerini yöneten ilkeler ve metotlar konusunda bilgi kazanmalı ve işletme içinde ve dışındaki işletmeyle ilgili problemleri kritik olarak analiz edebilmeli ve değerlendirebilmelidirler.

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This course aims to develop a discussion of organization theories in the specific context of management of culture and arts via exploring organizational structures and dynamics of culture organizations in its relation with for-profit and non-profit forms, concept of management and organization and theories of organization. Theories of organization will be supported by cases and examples to develop a perspective for both academic knowledge base and professional purposes.

The objective of this course is to define and discuss the terms and basic concepts; models; evolution of management thought; four functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling; organizational structure; design; organization’s internal systems; organization and its environment; organizational fit; organizational culture; organizational performance; social responsibility and ethics; managerial decision making; early and contemporary leadership theories and applications.

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This course is designed to allow the students to apply their creative and analytical skills to a wide variety of business and social contexts. It offers an insight into the value of creativity and design to organizations and how this can best be managed or used as a strategic tool. Simply put, "design management is the business side of design".

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The objective of this course is to encourage students to examine critically management theories and practices in contemporary societies. More specifically, it has a number of objectives, which are, to understand the change in management thought and its relationship to changing circumstances of capitalist development, to explore different aspects of work organization in different societal contexts, to investigate how structure, culture, power and politics define organization (and how strategy and strategic action affects all these fields), to gain an appreciation of critical reasoning in this field, and to develop skills in critical reading and writing.

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This is a study of success, how Design Management facilitating success throughout the design industry. Being created by a number of guests throughout the semester students will have the opportunity to examine the role of Management in the success of businesses. This course is unique in its examination of the roles that design management play in business innovation and a key strategy for competitive advantage in today’s global markets. 

The purpose of this course is to provide students with an introduction to principles and practices in entrepreneurship, which is now considered as a career choice in the globalized and interconnected business world. This course defines entrepreneurship within the context of opportunity recognition, innovative thinking, competitive perspective development, risk taking, role modeling, canvas model and business planning. During the course, business people who are the founders of many start-ups are invited to the course so that they share their experiences, stories of success and failure which will give students some direction to achieving success in entrepreneurship.

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The operations and managemnt principles and procedures involved in an effective food and beverage control system are conveyed fully in this module. It provides an in-depth insight into th operating budget, menu management, menu pricing, purchasing and supplier selection, cost-volume profit analysis, labor cost-control, computer applications and successfull management of service quality standartization.

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This course explores ways and techniques used to control costs, revenues, and profitability in food and beverage operations. After being familiar with the concepts of the food and beverage and control function, the students will learn how to plan for the food and beverage cost control, design effective food and beverage control systems, and determine food and beverage standards. The students also will learn the concepts of the hospitality purchasing management and how purchasing, receiving, storing, issuing systems affect food and beverage cost control objectives. Other areas affecting the food and beverage control systems will also be discussed, including production control, sales and income control, labour costs control, and the applications of technology in food and beverage cost planning.

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This course will provide students with the basic skills required for the history, and methods of production for a variety of wine, beer, spirits, and other beverages. Sensory analysis, product knowledge, service techniques, sales, and alcohol service related to the hospitality industry.

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