COURSE UNIT TITLE

: UNIONIZM IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND TURKEY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇIN 7052 UNIONIZM IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND TURKEY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Human Resources Non-Thesis (evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR BARIŞ SEÇER

Offered to

Human Resources Non-Thesis (evening)

Course Objective

Evaluation to characteristic of the unions and integration with the socio-economic structure in the member state of EU and Türkiye

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To recognate industrial relations system, basic concepts and union rights
2   To learn industrial relations system in the EU countries and Türkiye
3   To analyze trade unionism perspective of the social and economic.
4   To compare changing of trade unionism in context of time and space in EU contries and Türkiye
5   To discuss social and economic crisis and transformations in terms of industrial relations on the basis of a global and EU scale and to recognate its effect to Türkiye which is in the process of full membership.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Content of Course and Introduction
2 Emergence, progress and aims of the unionisation.
3 Union rights in the international and national documents
4 Unions: Types, Structure and Functioning
5 Syndicalism in Türkiye; Emergence, progress and relationship wtih the socio-economic structure
6 Collectice bargaining process in Türkiye
7 Collective Labor Disputes and Solutions
8 Midterm Exam
9 Basic Features of Trade Unionism in Türkiye
10 Syndicalism in the European Union (Structure and Functioning of the European Union)
11 Human Resources Management and Unionism
12 New Union Strategies
13 Trade Unionism: Country Review
14 Trade Unionism: Country Review
15 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

BEARDWELL, Ian J.- STIRLING, John: Contemparary Industrial Relations. Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
ÇETIK, Mete- AKKAYA, Yüksel : Türkiye'de Endüstri Ilişkileri. Türkiye Ekonomik ve Toplumsal Tarih Vakfı. Istanbul, 1999.
DEMIRCIOĞLU, Murat: Dünyada Işçi Sendikaları. Basısen Yayını. Istanbul,1987.
EATON, Jack : Comparative Employment Relations. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2000.
EKIN, Nusret: Endüstri Ilişkileri.6. Bası, Beta Basım Yayım, Istanbul, 1994.
ERDUT, Tijen: Insan Kaynakları Yönetimi ve Endüstri Ilişkilerinde Değişim. Tühis Yayını, Izmir, 2002.
ERDUT, Zeki: Avrupa Topluluğu'na Tam Üyelik Bakımından Türk Endüstri Ilişkileri. Kamu-Iş Yayını, Ankara,1992.
FERNER, Antony - HYMAN, Richard; Industrial Relations in the New Europe. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford,1992.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, weekly readings, class discussions, student assignments and presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Final 1 5 5
Midterm 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 85

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.15555
LO.255555
LO.35455
LO.455555
LO.554555