AN EXAMPLE FOR LABOUR RELATIONS IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Özlen Çetä°n ()
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Özlen Çetä°n: Ä°stanbul University
JOURNAL OF LIFE ECONOMICS, 2019, vol. 6, issue 1, 61-78
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In this study, working conditions of workers and the results of a field study to identify the position within labor relations will be discussed. This study was conducted in Turkey at the factory owned by a multinational company operating in the automotive industry. During the process, which lasted six months with 181 workers in the factory, data was collected by interview and questionnaire methods. In the factory conditions, the aim of reaching the equal number of people in different lines and having permitted interviews caused the research to take a long time. General information about the sample group was obtained during the interviews. In-depth interview questions consist of 54 questions under eight different subtitles. These subtitles are technical knowledge and skills (10 questions), communication (6 questions), education (7 questions), experience (7 questions), about the institution (9 questions), gender (5 questions), social life (7 questions), expectations (4 questions). The answers of these questions were taken by in-depth interview method. The business statement questionnaire was collected at the end of the interviews. The business statement questionnaire consists of four sections that are individual, institution, social status and work environment. In the study, the responses of the workers to the questionnaire were compared according to their employment time (seniority), gender and the departments they work. In the research process, 7.2 percent (13 people) of the workers who participated in the interview has an associate degree or above, 32 percent (58 persons) have a general high school degree, 59.7 percent (108 persons) are from industrial vocational high school, 1,1 percent (2 people) graduated from primary school. The sample consisted of 22 women and 159 men. The work was carried out in press-mold, welding, assembly and paint shop lines.In this paper will discuss the results of the survey: “Is the quality of the worker appropriate to the nature of the work?†, “Is there a relationship between gender and the nature of work?†, “What are the determinants of employee satisfaction from working conditions?†, “Does adaptation to work decrease as technical knowledge and qualification increase?†.
Keywords: Quality of Work; Quality of Workers; Production Systems; Automotive Sector. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 J24 L11 L23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.15637/jlecon.6.005
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