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Murat Gulmez
Dr Debbie Holley
Anglia Ruskin University Cag University , Turkey
email: mgulmez@cag.edu.tr
email: debbie.holley@anglia.ac.uk
2. * This paper compares the attitudes to CSR of
two groups of students studying in Business
Schools, one in Turkey, one in England.
* We met at the CSR conference in Zagreb; and
have been developing the work since
* We would welcome comments and volunteers
to work with us to expand our study with
colleagues in other Business School settings
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3. *
• Facebook is now used by 1 in every 13 people on earth,
• 250 million of them (over 50%) who log in every day.
• 48% of 18-34 year olds check Facebook when they wake up 28% doing
so before even getting out of bed..
• The core 18-24 year old segment is now growing the fastest at 74%
year on year.
• 700 Billion minutes a month are spent on Facebook, 20 million
applications are installed per day Over
• 200 million people access Facebook via their mobile phone.
• 48% of young people said they now get their news through Facebook.
4.
5. * Quality of references selected by * Quality of references selected by
the student the student
* A focus on Facebook and ethical
* A focus on Chile and ethical issues issues through their commentary on
(ie external to the UK ethical the setting up of the company (ie
frameworks) external to the Turkish ethical
frameworks)
* The focus on ethical issues at the * The focus on ethical issues in terms
Royal Mint (ie internal to the UK of the students commentaries on
student ethical frameworks) the differences of face-to-face via
social networking online
communication.(ie internal to the
Turkish student ethical frameworks)
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We based our
study on
comparable
coursework
6. *
Ethics and informed consent
Both cohorts are in their third year as undergraduate students.
7. * E-Commerce is an elective course for 3rd year students
* 48 students in class who are registered for E-commerce course.
* 27 of the 48 students are Female and 21 of the student body are
male students.
* Most of the student body consists of students who live in the same
region where the university is located and comes from wealthy
families.
* Even though they have common background, values and pre-
education, they can differ a lot in academic success.
* The 15% of most successful students at Cag University are on full
scholarships and usually that is the fact that explains this difference.
* The students who are on full scholarships uses the English language
better therefore they are doing better in assignments and exams.
*
The UK cohort
experience
Holley (2012)
Full ref at back
12. * “A polarisation was identified * “The Majority used only
between those students who
addressed the question asked couple of websites as their
from a research perspective and references including blogs,
covered ethical issues around the
miners‟ strike critically so, and wikipedia and other means
those who looked up of poor references. There
„ethics/CSR/corporate
governance‟ on wikipedia and/or were only couple of
the mining company website and students who had used
merely copied out what was
available with no thought as to better quality references”
the source material and its
value.”
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13. * “The paradox of the role of * “The vast majority of the
business and wider education
values such as ethics and CSR can students ignored the
be seen to be replicated in the theoretical framework of
small study reported in this Ethics mentioned in the class
paper. Findings suggest that
students taking this business and they wrote about their
module were unclear about the perception of ethics with a
terminology of corporate social cultural approach” Gulmez
responsibility, confusing CSR with
ethics and sustainability, and (2011).
environmental issues” Holley
(2011
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14. * “in my opinion including the * “While I have always been
ethics in business curricula was convinced that organisations
very useful for me, before that I should be responsible for
never thought of ethics or moral giving something back to the
values could play an important societies that they operate
role for businesses, this course in, but I have never really
helped me to understand what is put much thought into how
ethics and changed my mind set to actually carry out ethical
on the issue, I would like to see business decisions, and how
more inclusion of ethics in our severe the consequences of
courses” Student A, Turkey. unethical behaviour can be”
Student B, UK.
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15. * To conclude, although the case study scenarios differ, in this
paper we have explored the similarities and differences of
students from two very different business schools and their
attitudes to ethics.
* Our findings indicate that our most able students share the
capability of engagement with a wide range of materials to
research their coursework, and this breadth of reading
enables more insightful analysis of a business case.
* Although it is disappointing that some students were not
willing (or perhaps not able) to engage with a range of texts
in depth, what is of interest through interviews with students
after the course is the interest expressed in business ethics.
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16. * Holley, D (2012) Student attitudes to CSR: The
Chilean copper workers Social Responsibility
Journal, Emerald Vol 8 Issue 2 ISSN: 1747-1117
* http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/facebook-
statistics-stats-facts-2011/
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