Ali Halici

Turkish companies’ ethical statements: content analysis with comparisons

The aim of the study is to determine the ethical concept of the companies’ statements and correlations with each other. Therefore, content analysis with quantitative methods were applied to the formal and written documents of 192 companies. In addition, corporate characteristics were determined. Consequently, statements were determined in 36 different subject areas. Among these, “high quality production” is the most frequently mentioned subject, while “supplier satisfaction” and “union relations” are the least. Also, “human resources” is the most, while “environmental issues” are the least examined subjects in the context of business functions. Companies’ ethical statements are affected by their year of establishment, the number of personnel, market values and ISO certificates.

Discrimination areas in higher education institutions in Turkey and a scale development study

Despite legal and administrative arrangements and increase in the sensitiveness for human rights, discriminative applications are important problems in organizations, because different applications and unfair behaviors for workers lead to negative consequences for the workers and the organization. The main discrimination areas that are stated in the literature are race, language, religion, sex, ideology and physical insufficiency etc., but these subjects would differ according to the region and sector. The aim of this study is to determine the discrimination areas in higher education Institutions in Turkey and develop a scale for measuring the level of discrimination in those areas. Discrimination areas are determined by an ethnographic study in the research. Within this context, factor analysis was applied to the related questions by Varimax approach and a reliable and valid scale was obtained.

A comparison of level of discrimination directed at academic staff in a Turkish and an Azerbaijani university

Purpose – The aim of this study is to understand the level of discrimination against academic staff in a Turkish and an Azerbaijani university. This research is the last stage of a four‐stage study.Design/methodology/approach – In the first part of the study, the areas of discrimination in universities were determined using approaches related to general discrimination mentioned in the literature. In the second part, a survey was developed to measure the areas of discrimination determined by ethnographic research. In the course of the third part of the study, the discrimination level directed at academic staff in higher education in Turkey was determined. In this last part of the research, the discrimination level in Azerbaijan is analyzed and compared with the results gathered in Turkey. In order to increase the rate of reply to the survey questions, a web page was included in the Baskent University web site (see www.baskent.edu.tr/ ∼ anket) which targeted people were asked to reply to. A total of 220 ins...

Re-engineering enterprise architectures

An Enterprise Architecture (EA) is used for the design and realization of the business processes, along with user roles, applications, data, and technical infrastructures. Over time, maintaining an EA update may become a complex issue, let alone an organization-wide architecture and its related artifacts. EA practices provide much of the required guidelines for the design and development of EAs. However, they cannot present a comprehensive method or solution for the re-engineering processes of EAs. In this paper, we propose an EA re-engineering model and present its potential contributions. The study is conducted according to the Design Science Research Method. The research contribution is classified as an “application of a new solution (process model) to a known problem (re-engineering EA)”. The future research efforts will focus on the implementation and evaluation of the model in case studies for gathering empirical evidences.