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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / İŞLD665 - BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (PHD)

Code: İŞLD665 Course Title: CURRENT ISSUES IN LOCAL ADMINISTRATIONS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 3rd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (PHD)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer SERDAR VURAL UYGUN (serdarvuraluygun@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
To identify the problems of local governments and to develop the solution offers

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 PO-5 The candidate can understand the Department of Business Administration`s disciplines interaction with each other and the Department of Business Administration interaction with other departments. Also, the candidate can evaluate various topics with new perspectives and study interdisciplinary.
Examination
Presentation
LO-2 PO-8 The candidate keeps up to date his/her knowledge, follow closely national and international literature in the field of Business Administration, and can improve himself/herself not only in Business Administration, but also in other social issues.
Examination
Presentation
LO-3 PO-9 As a good academician and researcher, the candidate can learn to look critically to new subjects, to new developments in the field of Business Administration, to related other topics. Also, he/she can improve his/her questioning and exploratory aspects.
Examination
Presentation
LO-4 PO-10 The candidate can build and develop good relations with representatives of public and private sector builds and develops good relations with, and can work in disciplinary groups and interdisciplinary groups.
Examination
Presentation
LO-5 PO-15 Besides academic career, the candidates can be employed at the public and private sectors, and may found their own research and/or consulting companies with their theoretical and practical knowledge.
Examination
Presentation
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
To identify the problems with in the scope of obligations of local governments and to develop the solution offers.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 General overview to the local governments (examination of duties, services, administrative and fiscal structure) Lecture, presentation, discussion
2 The relation of service sharing and transfer of fiscal resources between central administration and local governments Lecture, presentation, discussion
3 The service sharing, conflicts of authority and financial resource disequilibriums between the local governments Lecture, presentation, discussion
4 The effects of the new public adminsitration approach's on the administrative and financial structure of local governments Lecture, presentation, discussion
5 Relation between local administrations and local democracy: political participation and representative crisis Lecture, presentation, discussion
6 The assesment of necessity of the local government's administrative and financial autonomy specific to agreements signed and the other countries implementations Lecture, presentation, discussion
7 Strategic plan, performance based budgeting, activity reports and total quality implementations in the local governments Lecture, presentation, discussion
8 mid-term exam
9 Problems and solution offers which arising from services methods in the local governments Lecture, presentation, discussion
10 Problems and solution offers which arising from financial structures and resource shortages of local governments Lecture, presentation, discussion
11 Problems and solution offers which arising from personel policies of local governments Lecture, presentation, discussion
12 Problems and solution offers which arising from audit approach of local governments Lecture, presentation, discussion
13 Problems and effects of social and cultural municipalism approach Lecture, presentation, discussion
14 The responsibilities of local government units in the process of urban transformation and the problems Lecture, presentation, discussion
15 Local governments' environmental and ethical policies and the problems in the process of e-municipality Lecture, presentation, discussion
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Yerel Yönetimlerde Güncel Sorunlar ve Tartışmalar, Ed: Kemal ÖZDEN, Seçkin Yayınevi
Required Course instruments and materials
Projections, related articles

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 2 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 2 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 14 42
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 14 42
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 12 1 12
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 6 3 18
mid-term exam 2 1 2
Own study for final exam 7 3 21
final exam 2 1 2
0
0
Total work load; 181