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Program Type: 
Thesis
Course Code: 
DBA 605
Course Type: 
Core
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
10
Course Language: 
English
Course Objectives: 

This course is designed to explore the impacts of the ancient civilizations, the major monotheistic religious teachings and the deliberations made by some well-known philosophers on management and organization theory as we understand today.

Course Content: 
  1. An overview of the evolution of management and organization theory
  2. The impacts of the ancient civilizations on management
  3. The analysis of the teachings of the three major religions with respect to management
  4. The avaluation of the thought of the foremost philosophers on management
  5. Managerial understandings in Capitalism and Marxism
Teaching Methods: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion
Assessment Methods: 
A: Exam, B: Presentation, C: Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes Program Learning Outcomes Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
  1. Identification of the main main features of each major group of the theories in order to lay the base to search their historical roots.
1, 2, 6 1, 2, 3 A, B,C
  1. To compare and contrast the views of some gurus of today with their ancient counterparts such as M. Porter with Sun Tzu, and Karl Marx with Ibn Haldun.
3, 7, 8 1, 2, 3 A, B,C
  1. Exploring the historical links between ancient laws such as Hammurabi’s or Roman Law and presently prevalent business laws.
1, 3, 8 1, 2, 3 A, B,C
  1. Realization of the fact that many concepts, principles and practices of management today have historical roots, thus they are not as new as claimed in the literature.
3, 4, 10 1, 2, 3 A, B,C
  1. Since all topics are to be prepared by student groups and presented orally and written, and since all students will take part in 3-4 projects, they will increase their skills in research, report preperation and presentation.
2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10 1, 2, 3 A, B,C

Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT
Week Topics Study Materials
1 Overview of the course, basic concepts of business administration, management concepts, case studies Related Chapters and Case Studies
2 Management Yesterday and Today, Historical Background of Management, Classical Theories Related Chapters and Case Studies
3 The Social Person Era - The Modern Era Related Chapters and Case Studies
4 The Ancient World and Management I: The Sumerian and Akadian Periods, The Babylonia, the Assyria and Egypt Periods Teamwork
5 The Ancient World and Management II: China: Sun Tzu’s “ The Art of War” and Other Chinese Philosophers Teamwork
6 The Ancient World and Management II: China: Sun Tzu’s “ The Art of War” and Other Chinese Philosophers Teamwork
7 The Ancient World and Management III:  Rome and Greece Periods Teamwork
8 Judaism and Management Teamwork
9 Christianity and Management Teamwork
10 Islam and Management Teamwork
11 The Ottoman Period and the Role of Guilds (Loncas), Ahi-order, Ibn Haldun and his Thoughts Teamwork
12 Some Great Philosophers and their Management Thoughts ( Machiavelli, Hobbes, John Locke, Montesqieu, Rousseau and others) Teamwork
13 Calvinism, The Protestant Ethic, Max Weber and Management Teamwork
14 Capitalism, Marxism and Management Teamwork
15 Existential Philosophy and Management Teamwork
16 Final Exam Teamwork

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES
Textbook For the first four weeks:

Daniel A.Wren. The History of Management Thought. John Wiley, 2005.

Additional Resources  

Material Sharing

MATERIAL SHARING
Documents Weekly students’ presentations and  reports
Assignments Weekly students’ presentations and  reports
Exams 1 Final

Assessment

ASSESSMENT
IN-TERM STUDIES NUMBER PERCENTAGE
Mid-terms - -
Attendence and Participation 1 20
Assignments and Presentations 4 40
Final 1 40
Total   100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE   40
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE   60
Total   100

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
No Program Learning Outcomes Contribution
1 2 3 4 5  
1 Ph.D. candidates gain knowledge and skills to interpret and criticize many theories, models, and paradigms related to different perspectives that developed in the fields of business (organization and administration, organization behavior, marketing, finance, human resources, production technology, etc.)  and social sciences and evaluation of scientific studies and research presented at scientific meetings         X  
2 Ph.D. candidates learn to track and interpret the changes, innovations and developments in business administration or in other fields of social sciences, and as practitioners determine the organizational and managerial problems, create innovative solutions in the light of this information.       X    
3 Ph.D. candidates gain knowledge, ability, and responsibility to carry out unique scientific and academic researches independently or in partnership with other researchers in the field of social sciences, and to publish the research results in forms of book, article, report and to present for discussing in scientific areas.         X  
4 Ph.D. candidates become managers based on ethical issues, leaders, or academicians who have consciousness of a sustainable environment, social responsibility and active citizenship in the scientific environment in the university, in the close relationship with outstanding faculty members, selected guest speakers and the teammates who they are educated together.       X    
5  Ph.D. candidates learn that the employees of the national and international organizations they manage come from different backgrounds and culture, cultural conflicts occur in mergers and cross-country mobility of the labor force, in a scientific environment and evolve as successful managers and leaders  who can manage cultural differences.       X    
6 Ph.D. candidates gain leadership qualifications to make rational decision-making for long-term strategic planning and application of plans in the organizations they work.   X        
7 Ph.D. candidates learn that strategic management is teamwork and results can be achieved only by working as teams.       X    
8 Ph.D. candidates learn that information developed in different fields of social sciences complete each other and in scientific studies, having multidisciplinary approach and viewpoint is inevitable.         X  
9 In long-term doctoral studies, Ph.D. candidates prepare papers and presentations in English and they criticized for improvement of their studies, they gain effective communication skills in both their native language and in English.         X  
10 Ph.D. Candidates experiences how rapid is production and development of information in social sciences and in business administration and learn that life-long learning is inevitable.         X  

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
Activities Quantity Duration
(Hour)
Total
Workload
(Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) 16 3 48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 16 10 160
Mid-terms - - -
Homework 4 10 40
Final examination 1 10 10
Total Work Load     258
Total Work Load / 25 (h)     10.32
ECTS Credit of the Course     10