Lesson plan / ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY CORPORATIONS

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 4.0
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Faculty Elective
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? F
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Purpose and Content

The aim of the course Students will gain an understanding of the emergence and development of modern business organizations. They will learn the characteristics of bureaucratic organizations and corporations. They will be able to identify different types of business organizations, and human resource management practices and labor control mechanisms used in them. Students will also gain a basic understanding of employment relations. Particularly, they will learn the contemporary problems that employees face in business organizations in terms of gender, employment security, intensification of work and precariousness. Also, they will acquire basic information about the Turkish labor legislation.
Course Content This course introduces students to the study of business organizations. It discusses the development of bureaucracies and the modern corporation. The course also provides an introduction to labor studies. It focuses on labor control in industrial and service sectors and human resource development. It discusses how forms of work have changed in response to the transformation of the world economy. The course is based on lectures, reading assignments, classroom discussions, the screening of documentary films, guest lectures and visits to companies.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Introduction
2Introduction
3TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS “Nature and types of organizations,” in Hall, Organizations, chapter 2.
4CLASSICAL ORGANIZATION THEORY “Bureaucracy,” Max Weber. In F. Fischer and C. Sirianni (eds.) Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy, 1994. chapter 1.
5BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS “Scientific management,” Frederick Taylor. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 4. “The real meaning of Taylorism,” Harry Braverman. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 5.
6INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION Oliver Williamson, “The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach,” The American Journal of Sociology, vol. 87, no.3, 1981, pp. 548-577. Walter Powell, “Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization,” Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 12, 1990. Manual Castells, “The Network Enterprise: the Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy” in The Rise of the Network Society (2nd ed.), 2000, Blackwell, pp. 163-184 Arne Kalleberg, “Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition,” American Sociological Review, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
7LABOR CONTROL IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS “Forms of control in the labor process: An historical analysis,” Richard Edwards. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 8. “Organizing Consent on the Shop Floor: the Game of Making Out,” Michael Burawoy. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 10.
8Mid-term exam
9LABOR CONTROL IN BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS: THE CASE OF TURKEY Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir: “Hidden Forms of Resistance among Turkish Workers: Hegemonic Incorporation or Building Blocks for Working Class Struggle?” Capital and Class, no. 81, Autumn 2003, pp. 31-59. Engin Yıldırım: “Modern Management Techniques in the Developing World: The Case of TQM and its Impact on Workers in Turkey” Work, Employment, Society, 1999, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 693-709.
10BEGINNINGS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT “Human Relations and the Informal Organization,” Roethlisberger and Dickson. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 6. “Organizational Expertise and Bureaucratic Control: Behavioral Science as Managerial Ideology” Frank Fischer, In F. Fischer and C. Sirianni (eds.) Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy, 1994, chapter 12.
11CONTEMPORARY HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Tom Redman and Adrian Wilkinson, “Human Resource Management: A Contemporary Perspective,” In Contemporary Human Resource Management (2nd ed.), 2006, London: Prentice Hall, pp. 3-25.
12LABOR CONTROL IN THE SERVICE SECTOR Hochschild, Arlie 1983/2003. “Feeling Management. From Private to Commercial Uses” in The Managed Heart: commercialization of human feeling. University of California Press, pp. 89-136. Marek Korczynski, “Understanding the Contradictory Lived Experience of Service Work,” In Service Work. Critical Perspectives. Eds. Marek Korczynski and Cameron Lynn Macdonald, 2009, Routledge, pp. 73-90.
13CONTEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS Theo Nichols and Nadir Sugur, Global Management, Local Labour: Turkish Workers and Modern Industry, 2004, London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 143-182. Demet Şahende Dinler, “Trade Unions in Turkey,” 2012, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
14GENDER AND BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS Rosabeth Moss Kanter. “Women and power in organizations,” In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 17. Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations,” Gender & Society, 4 139-158. Rachel Salazar Parrenas, “The Globalization of Care Work,” In Service Work. Critical Perspectives. Eds. Marek Korczynski and Cameron Lynn Macdonald, 2009, Routledge, pp. 135-152.

Resources

1-“Nature and types of organizations,” in Hall, Organizations, chapter 2.
2- “Bureaucracy,” Max Weber. In F. Fischer and C. Sirianni (eds.) Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy, 1994. chapter 1.
3- “Scientific management,” Frederick Taylor. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chap. 4.
4- “The real meaning of Taylorism,” Harry Braverman. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 5.
5- Oliver Williamson, “The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach,” The American Journal of Sociology, vol. 87, no.3, 1981, pp. 548-577.
6- Walter Powell, “Neither Market nor Hierarchy: Network Forms of Organization,” Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 12, 1990.
7- Manual Castells, “The Network Enterprise: the Culture, Institutions, and Organizations of the Informational Economy” in The Rise of the Network Society (2nd ed.), 2000, Blackwell, pp. 163-184
8- Arne Kalleberg, “Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition,” American Sociological Review, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
9- “Forms of control in the labor process: An historical analysis,” Richard Edwards. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 8.
10- “Organizing Consent on the Shop Floor: the Game of Making Out,” Michael Burawoy. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 10.
11- Gamze Yücesan-Özdemir: “Hidden Forms of Resistance among Turkish Workers: Hegemonic Incorporation or Building Blocks for Working Class Struggle?” Capital and Class, no. 81, Autumn 2003, pp. 31-59.
12- “Human Relations and the Informal Organization,” Roethlisberger and Dickson. In Fischer and Sirianni, Critical Studies, chapter 6.
13- “Organizational Expertise and Bureaucratic Control: Behavioral Science as Managerial Ideology” Frank Fischer, In F. Fischer and C. Sirianni (eds.) Critical Studies in Organization and Bureaucracy, 1994, chapter 12.
14- Tom Redman and Adrian Wilkinson, “Human Resource Management: A Contemporary Perspective,” In Contemporary Human Resource Management (2nd ed.), 2006, London: Prentice Hall, pp. 3-25.
15- Engin Yıldırım: “Modern Management Techniques in the Developing World: The Case of TQM and its Impact on Workers in Turkey” Work, Employment, Society, 1999, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 693-709.
16- Hochschild, Arlie 1983/2003. “Feeling Management. From Private to Commercial Uses” in The Managed Heart: commercialization of human feeling. University of California Press, pp. 89-136.
17- Marek Korczynski, “Understanding the Contradictory Lived Experience of Service Work,” In Service Work. Critical Perspectives. Eds. Marek Korczynski and Cameron Lynn Macdonald, 2009, Routledge, pp. 73-90.
18- Theo Nichols and Nadir Sugur, Global Management, Local Labour: Turkish Workers and Modern Industry, 2004, London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 143-182.
19- Demet Şahende Dinler, “Trade Unions in Turkey,” 2012, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.
20- Turkish Labor Law:
http://www.iskanunu.com/images/dokuman/4857-sayili-is-kanunu-guncel-tam-metin-2012.pdf
21- The Law on Trade Unions and Collective Bargaining:
http://www.resmigazete.gov.tr/eskiler/2012/11/20121107-1.htm
22- Acker, Joan. 1990. “Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations,” Gender & Society, 4 139-158.
23- Rachel Salazar Parrenas, “The Globalization of Care Work,” In Service Work. Critical Perspectives. Eds. Marek Korczynski and Cameron Lynn Macdonald, 2009, Routledge, pp. 135-152.