The Department of Labor Economics and Industrial Relations examines working life in relation to disciplines such as social policy, law, economics, sociology, psychology and political science.
The department provides interdisciplinary education in the fields of social policy, labor relations and human resources management.
In the department, students are primarily given basic courses in economics, business administration, finance, mathematics, statistics and public administration. Then, courses are offered in the fields of basic and comparative social policy, social security, social problems, income distribution and poverty, urbanization and environmental problems and social law within the discipline of social policy.
In addition to industrial relations, industrial democracy, unionism, employee-employer relations, human resources practices, wage, employment, career management, productivity, strategic human resources management, which are among the disciplines of labor relations and human resources management, which constitute the other fields of study of the department. Theoretical and practical training covering subjects such as individual and collective labor law is also provided.
In addition to undergraduate education, the department offers "Human Resources and Labor Relations" and "Social Policy" master's programs. These programs offer both thesis and non-thesis master's degrees.