Management and Labour in Turkey, 1999-2000

There is much general discussion today of 'globalisation'. The overall aim of the research is to examine in a rapidly industrialising region of Turkey how management practice is being westernised in the private manufacturing sector - as judged by the introduction of particular modern capitalist management strategies and techniques - and to examine employees' responses to such changes in the context of a particular historically forged social structure. <br> Within this overall aim, specific objectives of the research were:<br> to explore the sources of managers' ideas about contemporary management practices and their evaluation of these in the light of their particular economic and social circumstances;<br> to document policies on recruitment and retention of labour, forms of labour and sub-contracting, production organisation and new technology, HRM and work relations, trade unionism and collective bargaining.<br> Managers' and workers' responses to the above matters were investigated using interviews, surveys and observational study, with particular account taken of the significance of key sociological variables, including internal migration, ethnicity, gender, family life and social networks. <br> Users should note that the dataset held at UK Data Archive only contains quantitative survey and coded interview data.