The investigation of the relationship between job satisfaction and control perception of COVID-19: The sample of bank employees

Job satisfaction is affected by many factors since it has a dynamic structure. In the living period, some environmental conditions affect job satisfaction. The assumption that the current Covid-19 pandemic and the perceptions regarding the control of the pandemic will be among these factors has formed the starting point of the study. The Covid-19 pandemic has brought with many changes, from working conditions to lifestyles. One of these changes has been the introduction of mandatory distance rules to social life. The banking sector essentially fulfill a scourse. The executing of this scourse requires an interaction. The study was carried out on the banking sector, with the thought that it would be more difficult for bank employees to cope with this challenge under pandemic conditions and it would be important to examine their job satisfaction. In this study, the relationship between the job satisfaction of bank employees and their perception of Covid-19 control was examined. Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale and Covid-19 Control Perception Scale were used as measurement tools. The research data were obtained by applying a questionnaire to the bank employees working in the province of Konya. SPSS 25 package program are used for analysis. After the Reliability analysis and Explanatory factor analysis of the scales, Spearman correlation analysis, regression analysis, Mann-Whitney U test and Kruskal-Wallis test were performed to test the hypotheses. According to the results of the analysis, a moderate positive relationship are found between job satisfaction and the perception of Covid-19 control. Perceptions that Covid-19 is under control increase job satisfaction. Therefore, our main hypothesis was accepted. Keywords: Banking, Job satisfaction, Perception of Covid-19 control, Covid-19 Pandemic.