COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKD 7047 EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 5

Offered By

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR COŞKUN SARAÇ

Offered to

Employment and Career Consultancy Non-thesis (evening)

Course Objective

The purpose of this lesson is to present a detailed analysis of the employment
relationship between employee and employer. Course includes both individual contracts
and collective bargaining agreements in Turkish Labour Law.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to explain the relationship between employer and employee.
2   To be able to apply information about the quality of working life onto career plans.
3   To be able to define the unions and collective bargaining process.
4   To be able to define the ethical dimension of labour relations.
5   To be able to establish a relationship between consultancy and labour

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The birth and development of industrial relations.
2 Theory and research in industrial relations.
3 The change from industrial relations to employment relations.
4 Economics theories and employment relations.
5 Labor-management relations.
6 Industrial relations institutions.
7 Mid-term exam
8 Human resources management and labour relations.
9 Collective bargaining and consultation.
10 Industrial relations and wage management.
11 Fundamental characteristics of labour relations area
12 The ethics of labour relations.
13 Labour relations in terms of consultancy of career & employment .
14 General assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

Mike Leat (2007), Exploring Employee Relations, Elsevier.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Verbal expression, slideshow, class participation.

Assessment Methods

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


*** 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)

Doç.Dr.Coşkun SARAÇ
E-Mail : coskun.sarac@deu.edu.tr Tel : +90 232 - 3010598 -

Office Hours

TBA

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 114

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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