The influence of deographic variable on job satisfaction: Based on survey at a steel factory in Dörtyol, Hatay

One of the ultimate goals of businesses that have an important place in the social life is to get products at high quality and efficiency and to make their profitability sustainable. One of the most effective business inputs for businesses in this endeavor is their employees. Achieving work satisfaction for employees and lack of interruptions in the production process has become a strategic issue that should be addressed by the business management. For this respect, the concept of "job satisfaction" has become more important in terms of contemporary business managers and researchers. The main purpose of the study is to examine whether the job satisfaction, which is very important in terms of businesses and employers, differs according to the demographic characteristics. In this research, a screening model was used from the quantitative research types. The research universe consisted of 296 employees in the production unit of an iron-steel factory, which engaged in labor-intensive production in the heavy industrial sector of Hatay-Dörtyol region; The research sample consists of 120 employees selected by simple random sampling method. In the collection of research data, a questionnaire consisting of two parts and 26 questions was used. As a result of the employee participants' inadequate response to the questionnaire, 13 questionnaires were considered invalid and not implemented. Using the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale, Student T-Test and Anova Test were used to determine the differences in the demographic characteristics of the employees according to the demographic characteristics of internal satisfaction, external satisfaction and general job satisfaction. The obtained data were analyzed by SPSS 20.00 Demo package program and the result was reached. As a result of this study; it was found that the employees' iron and steel factory employees had significant differences in internal job satisfaction levels according to the gender variable, but no significant difference was observed between the sexes in external and general job satisfaction. The internal-external and general job satisfaction levels of the employees were not significantly different according to age, marital status, education status, position and seniority variables.