The relationship between job satisfaction levels of safety emplooyes' and organizational identification: The case of Ağrı province

This study aimed to determine the relationship between job satisfaction levels and organizational identification of the personnel working at Ağrı Police Department. Another purpose of this study is to examine whether the job satisfaction and organizational identification levels of employees working in the Police Department differ according to demographic characteristics such as gender, marital status, age, education level, position, length of service in the institution, and monthly income. The personnel working at Ağrı Police Department who participated in the research were selected by simple random sampling method. As data collection tools, an information form created to determine the socio-demographic structure of the police personnel, the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Organizational Identification Scale survey technique were used. Surveys were distributed to 380 police officers, and the study was conducted with the data of 310 surveys that were answered and found appropriate. SPSS packaged software program was used in the analysis of the obtained data. According to the analysis results; a positive significant relationship was determined between the "Organizational Identification" scale and the total of the "Job Satisfaction" scale, the "Intrinsic Job Satisfaction" sub-dimension and the "Extrinsic Job Satisfaction" sub-dimension with Pearson correlation analysis. With regression analysis, it was determined that the model made for job satisfaction predicting organizational identification was meaningful. According to the standardized regression coefficient (β), it appears that job satisfaction is a significant predictor of organizational identification. Another important output of the research as a result of the field study is that 28.7% of the organizational identification levels of police officers are explained by the job satisfaction variable. The obtained results largely support the findings in the literature.