Kurumsal Sosyal Sorumluluğun İşverenin Yönetim Hakkı Üzerindeki Çift Yönlü Etkisi: Öz-Bağlayıcılık Perspektifinden Bir İnceleme
Istanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, cilt.25, sa.56, ss.1042-1071, 2026 (TRDizin)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 25 Sayı: 56
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.46928/iticusbe.1983207
- Dergi Adı: Istanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO), TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM), Sobiad Atıf Dizini
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1042-1071
- İstanbul Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
The relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies and the employer’s managerial prerogative is a distinctive legal question that has not yet been systematically addressed in Turkish labour law scholarship. Centring on the paradoxical nature of this relationship, the study examines the dual effect of CSR on the managerial prerogative. On the one hand, instructions grounded in environmental sustainability, behavioural standards set through codes of conduct, and social media policies devised for reputation-management purposes reinforce the employer’s instruction-giving power under the “legitimate aim” test, thereby paving the way for an expansion of the managerial prerogative. On the other hand, the same CSR commitments concretise the duty of equal treatment, restrict interferences with the employee's personal rights, and through references to ILO standards, establish a binding benchmark in the field of collective labour rights. This dual effect gives rise to the phenomenon of “self-binding”: in expanding the managerial prerogative through CSR instruments, the employer itself constructs a framework that constrains it. Analysing Turkish labour legislation, Court of Cassation case law, ECtHR judgments, and the EU’s CSDDD through the doctrinal legal method, the study seeks to establish systematically the binding effect of CSR commitments on the employer’s managerial prerogative. The study demonstrates that CSR is not a one-sided tool that either absolutely expands the employer’s right to manage or merely restricts it; on the contrary, it performs a dialectical function which, whilst reinforcing the legitimacy of this right, also leads to the employer being bound by its own commitments.