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  2. Faculty Of Engineering
  3. Industrial Relations (2025 - 2026)
Course Name Code Semester T+U Hours Credit ECTS
Industrial Relations SAU 015 0 1 + 0 2 2
Precondition Courses
Recommended Optional Courses
Course Language Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type OPTIONAL
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturers
Course Assistants Res.Asst. Aysegul Aydin
Course Category Other
Course Objective Aim of this course is to create the ability of modern industrial relations by analyzing the future effects of the developments and changes in the traditional industrial relations.
Course Content Beginning and development of industrial relations, employee-employer relations, concerned parties, unions, government intervention, collective bargaining, negotiation and collective agreements, conflict of interests and benefits, solution ways for the conflicts, new industrial relations (human resources management and enterprise culture, employment relationship and force usage, complaint, discipline and proposal systems, labor productivity, employee participation, automation, environment and non-governmental organizations effects.)
# Course Learning Outcomes Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1 Understand the problems and solutions of the laborer, employer, government and non-governmental organizations which engineers can be engaged in their business or other related industrial businesses.
2 Ability to be patient, communicate easily by scientific methods, recognize the rules quickly, solve the crisis with the negotiation techniques.
Week Course Topics Preliminary Preparation
1 Beginning of the Industrial relations, Industrial Revolution and its causes.
2 Developments during Ottoman and Republic Period, Production Factors and ideologies.
3 Employee-employer relations system (labor market, employment, unemployment, wages, labor productivity).
4 Parties in the employee-employer relations system (government, employer, unions, union types).
5 Collective bargaining, negotiations, collective agreements, conflict of interest and benefits.
6 Solution ways in case of conflict (Agreement, mediation, arbitration, strike and lockout).
7 Industrial democracy and mergers (elections, representative authority, business consolidations).
8 New industrial relations (Human resource management and enterprise culture).
9 New industrial relations (employment relationship and force usage).
10 New industrial relations (complaint, discipline and proposal systems).
11 New industrial relations (Environmental, occupational safety and health).
12 New industrial relations (employee participation and outsourcing).
13 Technological (Automation) and Financial (budgeting) developments.
14 Non-governmental organizations, globalization and global organizations.
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# Contribution of Course Learning Outcomes to Program Outcomes
1 Understand the problems and solutions of the laborer, employer, government and non-governmental organizations which engineers can be engaged in their business or other related industrial businesses.
2 Ability to be patient, communicate easily by scientific methods, recognize the rules quickly, solve the crisis with the negotiation techniques.
Evaluation System
Semester Studies Contribution Rate
1. Ara Sınav 60
1. Kısa Sınav 15
1. Ödev 10
2. Kısa Sınav 15
Total 100
1. Yıl İçinin Başarıya 40
1. Final 60
Total 100
ECTS - Workload Activity Quantity Time (Hours) Total Workload (Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) 16 2 32
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) 16 1 16
Mid-terms 1 2 2
Assignment 1 2 2
Performance Task (Laboratory) 1 2 2
Total Workload 54
Total Workload / 25 (Hours) 2.16
dersAKTSKredisi 2