Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
180102001108INDUSTRIAL RELATIONSElective234
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
The aim of this course is to manage modern industrial relations by analyzing the future effects of the developments and changes in the traditional industrial relations.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1Understand the problems and solutions of the laborer, employer, government and non-governmental organizations which engineers can be engaged in their business or other related industrial businesses.
2Ability to be patient, communicate easily by scientific methods, recognize the rules quickly, solve the crisis with the negotiation techniques.
Mode of Delivery
Daytime Class
Prerequisites and co-requisities
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Beginning and development of industrial relations, employee-employer relations, concerned parties, unions, government intervention, collective bargaining, negotiation and collective agreements, conflict of interests and benefits, solution ways for the conflicts, new industrial relations (human resources management and enterprise culture, employment relationship and force usage, complaint, discipline and proposal systems, labor productivity, employee participation, automation, environment and non-governmental organizations effects.)
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1The Emergence Industrial Relations, Industrial Revolution and Its Causes
2Developments during Ottoman and Republic Period, Production Factors and ideologies.
3Employee-employer relations system (labor market, employment, unemployment, wages, labor productivity).
4Parties in the employee-employer relations system (government, employer, unions, union types).
5Collective bargaining, negotiations, collective agreements, conflict of interest and benefits.
6Solution ways in case of conflict (Agreement, mediation, arbitration, strike and lockout).
7Industrial democracy and mergers (elections, representative authority, business consolidations).
8New industrial relations (complaint, discipline and proposal systems).
9Midterm Exam
10New industrial relations (Environmental, occupational safety and health)
11New industrial relations (Environmental, occupational safety and health)
12New industrial relations (employee participation and outsourcing).
13Technological (Automation) and Financial (budgeting) developments.
14Non-governmental organizations, globalization and global organizations.
Recommended or Required Reading
1- EKİN Nusret,"Endüstri İlişkileri",İst.Üniv.Yayın No:2549,İSTANBUL,1979 2- GÜVEN H.Sami.,"Endüstriyel İşçi Kooperatifleri",TDAV Yay.,BURSA-1993
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Turkish
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination155
Final Examination177
Self Study6530
Individual Study for Mid term Examination8540
Individual Study for Final Examination8540
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)122
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High
 
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