The Personnel policies of metropolitan municipalities in Turkey

ABSTRACT In this study, the personnel policies of metropolitan municipalities adopted in 1984 by the law 3030 is examined; the relationships between the central government and local governments are investigated in the limits of municipal personal system. The "career" and "competence" principles' applications of metropolitan municipalities are tried to determine by the analysis of changes in the personnel units and turnover ratios. The data provided by the personnel departments of metropolitan municipalities of Antalya, Ankara, Bursa and Konya also; municipalities of Muratpaşa, Kepez and Konyaaltı was used. The reasons to choice of these metropolitan municipalities are their basic economic subdivisions are tourism, bourocracy, industry and agriculture. The results of the analysis demonstrated that related to local elections personnel turnover ratios of municipalities increase. The changes in the class of workmen is higher than the class of officials which is more supervised by the central governmentsince the personnel examines are centralised the stuff requests of municipalities from central government decrease. It is determined that metropolitan municipalities put in practice the political pressure and choices instead of career and competence principles in the personnel management 111