A research on the relationship between the concept of business ethics and human resources management and the effect of this relationship on employees' job satisfaction

Human resources, which are among the production elements that enterprises must have in order to continue their activities to realize their economic goals, are the most valuable and most important production factor of enterprises. The concept of business ethics, which is based on human beings, attaches importance to the feelings, thoughts, attitudes and value judgments of employees. The main purpose of human resources management within an enterprise should be to ensure that employees work in the most efficient way to achieve their individual goals and the corporate goals of the enterprise. In order to fulfill this core function, human resource management has the obligation to make all human resource management functions for employees compliant with the principles of business ethics. A human resources management that adopts and effectively implements the principles of business ethics increases employees' job satisfaction, productivity, individual performance, welfare levels, morale and motivation levels, their level of commitment to the organization they work for, the corporate performance and corporate competitiveness of the enterprise. A human resources management that violates the principles of business ethics basically creates a serious obstacle for existing employees to have a sense of belonging to the business, for new employee candidates to prefer and adopt the business with peace of mind, for the establishment of business discipline, labor peace, positive and healthy labor relations, employee loyalty and employee satisfaction within the business, and ultimately for the survival, growth and progress of the business. For these reasons, it is vitally important for human resources management to act in accordance with the principles of business ethics and, accordingly, to keep employees' job satisfaction at high levels. In the theoretical part of this thesis, the concept of business ethics, human resource management functions and the concept of employee job satisfaction are discussed in detail. In the analysis part of this thesis, the employees representing the main mass were determined and the relationship between business ethics, human resource management functions and employees' notions of job satisfaction was tried to be determined by applying an electronic questionnaire to this sample group.