ABSTRACT
Turkey is one of the very few countries in the world situated between the Eastern and Western cultures. Management styles of private-sector companies are different from those of public-sector companies, and the prevalent cultures of the two sectors are also dissimilar. In Turkey, the need for a separate higher education institution for management education was felt in the changing economic conditions of the 1950s. Up to that date the School of Economics of Istanbul University and other social science programmes at major universities met the demand for educating managers. The first one is the MBA programme which is designed to equip graduated students, without any work experience, with tools to deal with the international environment. It is a one-and-a-half year programme at the end of which the students have to submit a thesis. The second programme, the Business Administration Program is for managers or for people who will become managers.
