Ders Planı

CLASS 4

Lesson plan / THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE OF LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS

Lesson Information

Course Credit	2.0
Course ECTS Credit	2.0
Teaching Language of Instruction	Türkçe
Level of Course	Associate's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 5, EQF-LLL: Level 5, QF-EHEA: Short Cycle
Type of Course	Compulsory
Mode of Delivery	Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?	Z
Course Coordinator
Instructor (s)	Assist. Prof. Dr. ESİN BENHÜR AKTÜRK
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course	In today’s global world, it is highly important to have organizational structures which would be able to administer new technologies and people. The new public administration approach which is developed to use the sources more productive and to serve efficiently in public administration emphasizes the neccessity of implementing the models and techniques which was developed for business administrations.
Course Content	In the content of lecture; there is distribution of power and responsibility, levels of differentiation and formalization, descriptions of job and position, the division of labour, audit sphere and different types of department concepts in frame of elements of organizational structure. In addition, after explaining modern organization models like downscaling, type of network, learning and simple organization; the problems about decision-making councils and organizational structure of local governments will be explained.

The aim of the course

In today’s global world, it is highly important to have organizational structures which would be able to administer new technologies and people. The new public administration approach which is developed to use the sources more productive and to serve efficiently in public administration emphasizes the neccessity of implementing the models and techniques which was developed for business administrations.

Course Content

In the content of lecture; there is distribution of power and responsibility, levels of differentiation and formalization, descriptions of job and position, the division of labour, audit sphere and different types of department concepts in frame of elements of organizational structure. In addition, after explaining modern organization models like downscaling, type of network, learning and simple organization; the problems about decision-making councils and organizational structure of local governments will be explained.

Learning Outcomes

They know about the development of public administration as a multidisciplinary academic field.
They read the legislation on local government in Turkey and abroad.
They have information about organizational structure and organizational operations of local administrations.
They learn about local government's finance.
They learn about the history of local government with a focus on the evolution of local government in Europe, Turkey and the United States.
They identify problems about local government's finance and provide solutions to them.
They also provide analyses, advices and predictions related to urban and environmental issues.
They develop alternative methods of the provision of local services.
They add to the social capital of a business by contributing to human resources and in-house communication.
They have a basic understanding of recent social and political developments at local, national and international levels.
They consider historical and structural factors together while they explain a social event.
They can read in a foreign language, especially in English.
Thanks to internship and on-site implementation, they can perform their professional skills.
They practice tecniques of filing and archiving.
They can use Microsoft Office applications.
They follow actual enonomic, social, policy developments and public opinion related to them.
They try to maintain an objective and scientific attitude towards themselves as well as to other people and events.
They improve their ability to express their opinions and feelings in a calm, confident and peaceful manner.
They gain experience of studying and working alone as well as of being a member of a team.
They learn how to think analytically.
They implement their theoretical and social scientific knowledge to their career as well as their everday life.
They provide themselves with a base on which they can pursue their education in social sciences.
They have a ood command of Turkish both verbally and in writing.
They are aware of their social responsibilities.
They draw people's attention to the necessities of becoming a good citizen with democratic culture.
They analyze problems related tp the functioning of local government.
They are careful to public interest.
They argue for the protection of local cultural values.

Weekly Course Subjects

1	Concept of Organization: Definition and Neccessity
2	Distribution of Power and Responsibility in Organizations
3	Levels of Differentiation and Formalization in Organizations
4	Span of Audit, Division of Labour and Departmentalisation
5	Principles and Types of Departmentalisation
6	Descriptions of Job and Position in Organizational Structure
7	Basic Approches in Design Process of an Organization
8	Midterm Exam
9	Modern Organization Models: Downscaling, Type of Network, Learning and Simple Organization
10	Structure of Local Governments
11	Organs of the municipality: Municipal Council, Municipal Committee and Mayor
12	Municipal Organization: Authority Structure and Degree of Centralization
13	Differentation Degree of Organizational Structure in Municipalities
14	Participation in Decision-Making of Municipal Employees

Resources

Eren, Erol, Yönetim ve Organizasyon (Çağdaş ve Küresel Yaklaşımlar), Beta Basım Yayın, İstanbul, 2006
Genç, Nurullah, Yönetim ve Organizasyon, Seçkin Yayıncılık, 2008.
Koçel, Tamer, İşletme Yöneticiliği, Beta Basım Yayın, İstanbul, 2003.
Daft, Richard L., Management, Sixth Edition, Ohio: South-Western, 2003.
Efil, İsmail, İşletmelerde Yönetim ve Organizasyon, 6. Baskı, Alfa Kitabevi, Bursa, 1999.
Yaman, Fatih Turan, Belediyelerde Çalışanların Yönetime Katılımı (İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi Örneği), Yayınlanmamış Doktora Tezi, Marmara Üniversitesi, 2010.

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