Reason for Researching Social Dialogue at the Workplace

Abstract

The primary focus of this study is investigating attitudes held by social partners in Turkey towards various mechanisms of social dialogue at the workplace level and the underlying reasons for these attitudes. This subject is being examined because social partners in Turkey have different perspectives on mechanisms that will facilitate social dialogue in the workplace, which can be unified in certain points but remain separated in others. This distinction presents the different approach patterns for Turkish labour relations. To demonstrate the requirement to analyse the views of social partners, the following example can be given: just after worker representation was enacted in Turkey, three workers’ confederations demonstrated against this practice; however, social partner representatives, whose ideas were sought during field research, expressed different views on this matter.