Basında ODTÜ
Basında ODTÜ
Üniversitemiz işletme Bölümü öğretim üyesi Prof. Dr. Semra Aşcıgil’in öğrencilerinden oluşan ekip; 22-24 Nisan 2020 tarihlerinde, Boston’da yapılması planlanıp salgın nedeniyle uzaktan sunum olarak gerçekleşen 23. Uluslararası İş Etiği Vaka Yarışması (IBECC)’nda kategorilerinde bir birincilik ve iki ikincilik ödülü kazandılar.
Loyola Üniversitesi İş Etiği Merkezi Başkanı Thomas White’ın liderliğinde, her yıl, Whole Presentation (finansal, hukuki ve etik boyutlar), Ethics Only (etik boyut), “90 seconds elevator talk” ve Essay Award kategorilerinde yapılan yarışmaya, Prof. Aşcıgil’in “İş Etiği” ve “Yönetişim ve Kurumsal Sosyal Sorumluluk” derslerinde öğrencilerinin hazırladıkları dönem projeleri arasından seçtiği takımlar katılıyor.
Yarışmaya ABD ve Kanada dışından ilk yabancı takım olarak, ilk kez uzaktan sunumla 2006 yılında katılan Aşcıgil ve öğrencileri, gösterdikleri başarılar üzerine; yarışma organizasyonu tarafından, üç yıl boyunca Los Angeles’ta Loyola Üniversitesi’nde, bir kez de Loyola Üniversitesi ve Ethics and Compliance Officer Association (ECOA) ile ortak düzenlenen ve ECOA’nın Seattle’daki yıllık toplantısı çerçevesinde yapılan yarışmaya tüm masrafları karşılanarak davet edildi. Sonraki yıllarda Avrupa’dan katılımcı sayısı arttıkça uzaktan sunumla yarışmada yer alan ODTÜ takımları; bu yıl da COVID-19 salgını nedeniyle tüm katılımcıların uzaktan sunum yapmasına karar verilmesiyle yarışmaya ZOOM toplantıları ile uzaktan provalar yaparak hazırlandı ve yine ödüllere hak kazandı. Başladığı günden bu yana 12 ülkeden 115 üniversitenin yarıştığı IBECC’e; 1500 öğrenci 375 takımla katıldı.
St. Thomas Üniversitesi, Bentley Üniversitesi, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Üniversiteleri İş Etiği Merkezleri ve Abigail Adams Institute, and ECI Ethics and Compliance Initiative gibi kurumlarla organizasyonunda işbirliği yapılan yarışma, öğrencileri; takım çalışması, etik konuların analizi, karar vermede (finansal, yasal ve etik) farklı boyutları gözönüne alma ve farklı zaman kısıtlamaları altında karar alma gibi çeşitli becerileri sergilemeye davet ediyor. Deneyimli yöneticiler, hukukçular ve iş etiği konusunda uzman akademisyenlerin jüride yer aldığı yarışma, öğrencilerin iş dünyasında karşılaşılan etik konular konusunda farkındalık kazanmalarını sağlarken, bazen ekipler aylar sonra bile basında yer almayan etik sorunları önceden saptayarak tartışıyor.
Şimdiye kadar yarışmada katılımcı iki takımda Almanya ve İsveç’ten iş etiği dersini alan ziyaretçi Erasmus öğrencilerinin de yer aldığı, ve ODTÜ’nün 2009 yılında dört ödülle büyük ödülü almasıyla elde ettiği rekorun henüz egale edilemediği yarışma, öğrenciler için büyük bir deneyim oluyor ve mezuniyet sonrasında girdikleri iş mülakatlarında da şirketlerin ilgisini çekerek olumlu izlenim yaratıyor. Yarışma hakkında Prof. Aşcıgil de; “öğrencilerin etik sorunları saptamada kazandıkları önsezi ve yarışma jürisinden aldıkları beğeniler bana en güzel hediye oluyor.” yorumunda bulunuyor.
IBECC’e katılan ODTÜ takımlarının, yıl bazında sunum konuları ve aldıkları ödüller ise şöyle sıralanıyor:
2006 Business Ethics Forthnight, Loyola Marymount University, Creating a More Realistic Woman Image in Advertisements,(Gamze Şen, Binnur Eroğlu, İlgi Çalık), Special International Participant Award, (online presentation)
2007 Business Ethics Forthnight, Loyola Marymount University, Music Piracy, 5th degree, (Gamze Şen, Yeşim Usluca, Alexander Boone, Marvin Mills), METU-Loyola Marymount University Joint Team, LA, U.S.
2008 IBECC Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition,Product Placement, 7th degree, Işıl Deniz Tunç, Doğan Güneş Susuz, Katharina Lohse, LA, U.S.
2009 Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition,Duchess and Daughters: Their Secret Mission, overall championship, MBA division championship, best ethical analysis award, essay award- championship record with total 4 awards (Dilek Tüten, PınarÜstün, Susan Kalinagil) LA, U.S.
EMMONS AWARD ($1000) Overall Championship, METU team among 28 teams
MEGGITT ETHICS AWARD ($500) awarded to the team in the preliminary round with the highest score for the ethics sections on the scoring sheet (shared by METU and LA SALLE University)
MBA Division champhionship : METU
CAROL GILLIGAN ETHICS ESSAY AWARD ($500) This award is funded by the Honorable Judge Ruth Kraft of the New York bench. The award is renamed every year in recognition of a different female philosopher. The best essay of 750 to 1,000 words about the ethical dimensions of the case. (METU)
2011 ECOA (Ethics and Compliance Officers Association) and Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition-Homeworkers in Garment Industry, IBECC Carroll & Stanley Botts “best paper award” in Servant Leadership, 1st runner up in ethical analysis consolidation round (Sinem Başaran, Esma Yıldız) Seattle, U.S.
2013 ECOA (Ethics and Compliance Officers Association) and Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition-IBECC Quadruple Limb Transplantation, Recognition award (Chandaro Chimm, Meltem Özcanlı) Online.
2016 ECOA and Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition-IBECC Sandblasting in Jean Industry, 1stRunner up in Elevator Talk Category, (Cihan Şimşek, Fırat Özata, Edvina Bihorac) Online.
2018 Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition-IBECC Bitcoin Mania,1st Runner up in Elevator Talk Category (Aykut Alagöz, Rahmi Ak, Ezgi Alaca) Online.
2020 IBECC International Business Ethics Case Competition, Graduate, Whole Presentation 1strunner up, Ethics Only 1st , 90 seconds elevator talk 1strunner up, Refugee Incubators: Making Employability and Inclusion Possible (Çağan Şatana, Yağmur Erşan) Online.*Görselde kullanılan fotoğraf 2009 yılında yarışmaya katılan ekibe aittir.
The teams selected by Prof. Aşcıgil out of the term projects of “Business Ethics” course and improved during “Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility” course are eligible for participating in the competition every year. The competition is organized in the categories of Whole Presentation (financial, legal and ethical dimensions), Ethics Only (ethical dimension), “90 seconds Elevator Talk” and Essay Award, under the leadership of Prof. Thomas White, who acted as the Director of Center for Ethics and Business at Loyola Marymount University for years. 28-30 teams participate every year most of which are from U.S.A. Since 2019 IBECC became an independent organization after Prof. Thomas White’s retirement from LMU. Throughout its history, more than 1500 students, comprising 375 teams, representing 115 schools from 12 different countries have participated. Teams have come from: Australia, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Hungary, Kuwait, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and Vietnam.
Prof. Aşcıgil and her students first participated in the competition as the first international team except Canada in 2006. Upon their good performance, they participated with full expense covered by the competition organization for three years, and once to Ethics and Compliance Officer Association’s (ECOA) annual conference in Seattle. ECOA co-organized the competition together with Loyola University and competition was realized prior to the ECOA annual conference for few years. METU teams took part in the competition via remote presentations in the following years as the number of participants from Europe (i.e. University of Oxford, Cambridge, INSEAD) increased. This year, with the decision to have all presentations remotely due to the COVID-19 epidemic, they were prepared by remote rehearsals with ZOOM meetings, which again entitled METU team to awards.
IBECC’s primary partners are institutions and University Centers of Business Ethics such as St. Thomas University, Bentley University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Abigail Adams Institute, and ECI Ethics and Compliance Initiative. Students are invited to demonstrate variety of skills such as teamwork, analysis of ethical issues, considering multiple criteria (financial, legal and ethical) in decision making and influencing board decisions under time constraints. Experienced managers, executives, lawyers, compliance officers and academicians with expertise in business ethics take place in the jury. The competition enhance students’ awareness on the ethical issues faced in the business world. Prof. Aşcıgil notes “sometimes teams identify and discuss ethical issues that are not yet in our business community’s agenda. Witnessing their foresight and performance, as well as the appreciation gained from jury members is the greatest award for me.”
The overall championship achieved in 2009 by METU with four awards, including the grand award, is the highest performance METU ever achieved. This was a championship record that is not yet attained. Since 2006, two teams involved visiting Erasmus students from Germany and Sweden, who took the business ethics course. The competition is an excellent experience for students and creates a very positive impression and a significant interest during the job interviews students have after graduation.
Upon taking permission from Prof. Thomas White, Prof. Aşcıgil organized ethics competition using the same format in Turkey in 2006 together with the Public Officers Ethics Board’s cooperation. METU was represented by Başak Aydın, Bahar Özdiler and Sena Herkiloğlu with a presentation on “Sperm Banks”. Nine Turkish universities attended the competition in the first year, but the event couldn’t continue in the following year due to lack of adequate number of applications.
Listed below are the presentation topics and awards of METU teams participating in IBECC since 2006:
2006 Business Ethics Forthnight, Loyola Marymount University, Creating a More Realistic Woman Image in Advertisements,(Gamze Şen, Binnur Eroğlu, İlgi Çalık), Special International Participant Award, (online presentation)
2007 Business Ethics Forthnight, Loyola Marymount University, Music Piracy, 5th degree, (Gamze Şen, Yeşim Usluca, Alexander Boone, Marvin Mills), METU-Loyola Marymount University Joint Team, LA, U.S.
2008 IBECC Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition, Product Placement in Advertisements, 7th degree, Işıl Deniz Tunç, Doğan Güneş Susuz, Katharina Lohse, LA, U.S.
2009 Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition, Duchess and Daughters: Their Secret Mission, overall championship, MBA division championship, best ethical analysis award, essay award- championship record with total 4 awards (Dilek Tüten, Pınar Üstün, Susan Kalinagil) LA, U.S.
EMMONS AWARD ($1000) Overall Championship
MEGGITT ETHICS AWARD ($500) awarded to the team in the preliminary round with the highest score for the ethics sections on the scoring sheet (shared by METU and LA SALLE University)
MBA Division champhionship : METU
CAROL GILLIGAN ETHICS ESSAY AWARD ($500) This award is funded by the Honorable Judge Ruth Kraft of the New York bench. The award is renamed every year in recognition of a different female philosopher. The best essay of 750 to 1,000 words about the ethical dimensions of the case. (METU)
2011 ECOA (Ethics and Compliance Officers Association) and Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition-Homeworkers in Garment Industry, IBECC Carroll & Stanley Botts “best paper award” in Servant Leadership, 1st runner up in ethical analysis consolidation round (Sinem Başaran, Esma Yıldız) ECOA Annual Conference, Seattle, U.S.
2013 ECOA (Ethics and Compliance Officers Association) and Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition-IBECC Quadruple Limb Transplantation, Recognition award (Chandaro Chimm, Meltem Özcanlı) Online.
2016 ECOA and Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition-IBECC Sandblasting in Jean Industry, 1stRunner up in Elevator Talk Category, (Cihan Şimşek, Fırat Özata, Edvina Bihorac) Online.
2018 Loyola Marymount University Business Ethics Competition-IBECC Bitcoin Mania, 1st Runner up in Elevator Talk Category (Aykut Alagöz, Rahmi Ak, Ezgi Alaca) Online.
2020 IBECC International Business Ethics Case Competition, Graduate, Whole Presentation 1st runner up, Ethics Only 1st , Elevator Talk Category 1strunner up, Refugee Incubators: Making Employability and Inclusion Possible (Çağan Şatana, Yağmur Erşan) Online.
* The photograph used as the image belongs to the team that participated in the competition in 2009.