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.

当前，“全球化”已是各界广泛探讨的核心议题。本研究的核心目标在于，以土耳其某快速工业化地区为研究场景，考察该地区私营制造业领域的管理实践如何以特定现代资本主义管理策略与技术的引入为评判标准实现西方化转型，并结合该地区经历史塑造形成的特定社会结构语境，探究雇员对这类变革的应对与反馈。<br>在上述核心目标框架下，本研究的具体研究目标包括：<br>① 探究管理者关于当代管理实践的理念来源，以及其结合自身所处特定经济与社会环境对这些实践做出的评价；<br>② 系统记录劳动力招聘与留存策略、用工形式与分包模式、生产组织与新技术应用、人力资源管理（Human Resource Management, HRM）、劳资关系、工会主义与集体谈判等方面的政策实践。<br>本研究采用访谈法、问卷调查法与观察研究法，对管理者与劳动者针对上述议题的应对态度展开调研，并重点考量核心社会学变量的影响意义，包括国内移民、族裔身份、性别、家庭生活与社会网络等因素。<br>使用者需注意，英国数据档案馆（UK Data Archive）所托管的本数据集仅包含量化问卷调查数据与编码访谈数据。