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A Research towards Determination of Job Satisfaction Level of Public Employees: Karaman Governorship Sampl

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Changes that came into being globally in administration manner, also shows its effects in Turkey in both the private sector and public bodies and institutions. Many regulations and modifications are being made in public bodies and institutions in order to submit a more effective and efficient public sevice. But these modifications and regulations are being made by not taking into consideration well enough the thoughts and the feelings of the public sector employees against their job. In this study, during this process of modifications and regulations, in respect of job satisfaction, it has been tried to state at what level the Karaman Governorship employees are. Minnesota Job Satisfaction Quastionnaire has been distributed to the employees and the returned questionnaire has been analysed using SPSS 16.0 packet program. According to the results of the analyses, it has been determined that the employees working in Karaman Governorship are not satisfied with only 6 items (wages, preferment, appreciation, participation to decisions, execution of the decisions and unrestraint in the execution of decisions) of the job satisfaction items scales, and that they have the the satisfaction feeling against their job in general.

DOI 10.11648/j.jhrm.20130102.11
Published in Journal of Human Resource Management (Volume 1, Issue 2, August 2013)
Page(s) 29-38
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Job Satisfaction, Public Employees, Karaman Governorship

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