COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Business Administration for Executives (Evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR BANU DEMIREL

Offered to

Business Administration for Executives (Evening)

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to define new work opportunities, prepare business plans with reference to these opportunities and investigate entrepreneurship as a process of building work plans. In addition, this course enables students to analyze innovation management along with strategic and operational view points which leads to thinking at the specialist level in organizational contexts. Students are encouraged to create new ideas that cause entrepreneurial work to become commercially useful. In order to convert creative ideas into entrepreneurial work, one has to understand work environment and market, plan strategically and develop risk management skills. This course introduces entrepreneurial work, entrepreneurial thinking, creative mindsets, seizing the opportunities, legal issues, feasibility and market investigations, market and financial plans, area and capacity plans, regulative issues and risk analysis, technological issues, innovation process and strategic tools. By that, students will be able to develop skills to gain analytic thinking while exploring the organizational growth and inter-personal relationship management.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Readings and handouts will be given by the instructors

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, project, workshop, presentations, discussions, role-playing

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. MIDTERM EXAM: Midterm exam will be based on essays and discussions, which evaluate understanding, synthesis and evaluation of the text book and the lecture material.
2. TERM PROJECT: Students individually will prepare a business plan. Guidelines for preparing the business plan will be given by the instructor. By the help of this guideline, each student will submit his or her written plan. Late reports will not be accepted. Each student will present his or her plan. The rest of the class is encouraged to ask questions and participate in the discussion. The instructor s role is to manage the discussion. Remember that the quality of the discussion is the responsibility of the whole class.
3. FINAL EXAM: Students will be assessed on their knowledge of concepts through essay type questions.
4. PARTICIPATION and ASSIGNMENTS: Students should participate to discussions and prepare assignments related to the course subjects.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attending at least 70 percent of lectures is mandatory
2. Plagiarism of any type will result in disciplinary action.
3. Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions.
4. Students are expected to attend to classes on time.
5. Students are expected to prepare ahead of time for class.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

omur.ozmen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes