COURSE UNIT TITLE

: NEW DYNAMICS IN WORKING LIFE IN A DIGITAL ERA

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 4148 NEW DYNAMICS IN WORKING LIFE IN A DIGITAL ERA ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations
Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

If we name the era in which we live as digitalization and conceptualization in any meaning, the course aims to study the fast-paced concepts of working life; their contents and their practices while realizing some in-class experimental studies.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Conceptualizing and Understanding the new digital era (P01-P02-P04-P05)
2   Understanding the conceptualized era (P01-P02-P04-P05)
3   The projections of new digital era on working life (P01-P02-P04-P05)
4   Understanding the new skills of the new machines impact on working life (P01-P02-P04-P05)
5   Understanding the new challenges and opportunities for workers (P01-P02-P04-P05)
6   Identify the psychological and social problems of individuals at work in the digital era (P01-P02-P04-P05)
7   Interpretation of the workers attitudes towards the digitalizing work, human relations and work place. (P01-P02-P04-P05)

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Conceptualizing and Understanding the new digital era-1
2 Conceptualizing and Understanding the new digital era-2
3 Understanding the conceptualized era
4 The projections of new digital era on working life-1
5 The projections of new digital era on working life-2
6 Understanding the new skills of the new machines impact on working life
7 Understanding the new challenges for workers
8 Midterm
9 Midterm
10 Identify the psychological and social problems of individuals at work in the digital era-1
11 Identify the psychological and social problems of individuals at work in the digital era-2
12 Interpretation of the workers attitudes towards the digitalizing work, human relations and work place-1
13 Interpretation of the workers attitudes towards the digitalizing work, human relations and work place-2
14 Interpretation of the workers attitudes towards the digitalizing work, human relations and work place: In-Class Practices

Recomended or Required Reading

Brynjolfsson.E, McAfee. A (2014). The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, W.W Norton & Company, London
Watson I, Buchanan.J, Campbell,I & Briggs,C (2006). Fragmented Futures:New challenges in working life, Federation Press
Carr,N (2012). What The Internet Is Doing to Our Brains: The Shallows, W&W Norton, London

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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)

ogul.zgonul@deu.edu.tr
ogul.zengingonul@gmail.com

Office Hours

Tuesdays 10:00-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 35 35
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 127

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15555
LO.25555
LO.35555
LO.45555
LO.55555
LO.65555
LO.75555

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