COURSE UNIT TITLE

: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN TURKEY AND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEK 6116 INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS IN TURKEY AND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZEKI ERDUT

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to understand actors, context, ideology and rules of the systems of industrial relations in the EU member countries and Turkey. This course is important and necessary for the students to scrutinize the emerging changes related to the economic and social policies in Turkey in context of the discipline of industrial relations.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand coordination, authority, responsibility and functions of employment policies of EU and industrial relations in EU and member states.
2   To learn the features and purposes of the EU's Employment Strategy and, employment policies and practices.
3   To analyze effects of free movement of labour on the EU in terms of industrial relations.
4   To compare the change in the labor market in the member states and in Turkey in terms of time and space and to analyze the impact of this change on the systems of industrial relations.
5   To discuss social and economic crisis and transformations in the global scale in the context of the labor market and to evaluate their effects on Turkey.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Economic Integration in the EU and Turkey
2 Social Rules of Economic Integration in the EU
3 Basic Characteristics of Social Rules in the EU
4 Need for Creation Industrial Relations System at the EU Level
5 Risk of Social Dumping in the EU and the European Charter of Fundamental Rights
6 Customs Union and Accession of Turkey to European Union
7 Midterm Exam
8 Social Effects of the Customs Union between Turkey and the EU
9 Freedom of Movement and Freedom of Movement for Turkish Workers in the EU
10 Social Security Norms in the EU and the Turkish Social Security System
11 Social Partners in the EU Member States and Turkey
12 Collective Bargaining in the EU Member States and Turkey
13 Collective Labour Disputes in the EU Member States and Turkey
14 EU Membership and the Turkish Industrial Relations System

Recomended or Required Reading

Lee Adler, Otto Jacobi, Lowell Turner, Anti-union ideology or something more: the attack on collective bargaining in the USA, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research Vol. 17, No. 3, 2011, p. 403-407.
Thomas Amossé et all. Les organisations patronales continuites et mutations des formes de representation du patronat. Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales, Mai 2011.
Paul-Henri Antonmattei, Vie professionnelle, vie personnelle et vie syndicale, Droit Social, No. 1, Janvier 2010, p. 21-23.
Paul-Henri Antonmattei, Négociation collective et syndicats catégoriels: le début des ennuis, Droit Social, No. 1, Janvier 2011, p. 89-93.
Pier-Luc Bilodeau, Puissance et pouvoir en négociation collective, Relations Industrielles. Vol. 66, No. 2, Spring 2011, p. 171-190.
Jean-Paul Bouchet, L évolution des systèmes de négociation collective et de leurs acteurs, La Lettre, No. 88, 3ème trimestre, Juillet 2011.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, weekly readings, paper and others.

Assessment Methods

Successful / Unsuccessful


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

zeki.erdut@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 13:00-14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Literature review and presentation 12 3 36
Student Presentations 12 1 12
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 2 2
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 126

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555
LO.2555
LO.3555
LO.4555
LO.5555

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