COURSE UNIT TITLE

: QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ÇEK 6064 QUALITY OF WORKING LIFE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR TIJEN ERDUT

Offered to

Labour Economics and Industrial Relations

Course Objective

This course aims to give students an appreciation of the quality of working life, because the quality concept has started to be used in institutional analysis of social life in recent years.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognise the quality approaches relating to working life
2   Identify quality and market relationship
3   Demonstrate the supply of quality in case of the global value chains
4   Analysis the effects of the quality demand on labour market
5   Summarise the effects of the quality demand on the working conditions other than wage
6   Assess proposals about improving the quality of working life

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Concept of Quality of Working Life
2 Product Quality
3 Quality of Production Process
4 Quality of Work
5 Quality of Work
6 Quality of Employment
7 Demand and Quality
8 Midterm Exam
9 Supply and Quality
10 Price and Quality
11 Labour Market and Quality
12 Labour Demand and Quality
13 Labour Supply and Quality
14 Wage and Quality

Recomended or Required Reading

Tijen ERDUT; Çalışma Yaşamının Kalitesi. Türkiye Devrimci Işçi Sendikaları Konfederasyonu (DISK), Yayın No: 54, Ankara, 2006.
ILO.; The future of work and quality in the Information Society: The media, culture, graphical sector. Report for discussion at the Tripartite Meeting on the Future of Work and Quality in the Information Society: The Media, Culture, Graphical Sector, International Labour Office, Geneva, 2004.
Rüçhan IŞIK, Çalışma Yaşamının Kalitesinin Geliştirilmesi: Hükümet, Işçi, Işveren ve Özellikle ILO. nun Yaklaşımları, Verimlilik ve Çalışma Hayatının Kalitesinin Geliştirilmesi Sempozyumu. Milli Prodüktivite Merkezi (MPM.), Yayın No. 442, Ankara, 1991, s. 45 65.
Marco BIAGI; Quality in Community industrial relations: an institutional viewpoint, The International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations. Vol. 17, No. 3, Autumn 2001, s. 385 394.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Review essays
Class participation

Assessment Methods

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

tijen.erdut@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Student Presentations 13 1 13
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 14 14
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 189

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.455
LO.555
LO.655

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