A Study of the transition from ownership type of management to professional type of management of business and an application of the study to an industrial region of Gaziantep

ABSTRACT A STUDY OF THE TRANSITION FROM OWNERSHIP TYPE OF MANAGEMENT TO PROFESSIONAL TYPE OF MANAGEMENT OF BUSINESSES AND AN APPLICATION OF THE STUDY TO AN INDUSTRIAL REGION OF GAZİANTEP By Taner AKÇACI M.A. in Economics Sciences Supervisor: Asist. Prof. Dr. Mehmet CİVAN February, 2000, 217 pages Development process and the complication of the businesses made the administration of the businesess a difficult task. As a result of the developments in economics, technology and society, the roles of the owners and the managers in the businesses have changed and the administration became a profession. For the businesses, to strive against present situation of the market and to become succesfull it is a must to follow and use the new techniques in the management and administration. Despite the fact that administration duty requires a great amount of knowledge concerning almost all the subjects of administration, and a great ability and experience to put these knowledge into practice, professionalism in administration has not yet been existed. The main objective of the present work is to study the process of transition from ownership type of management to professional type of management for middle sized businesses. Success of the most businesses depends on some factors such as; setting up a systematic administration diagram, employing professional administrators to make the systematic administration work effectively, and using information and knowledge databases effectively for the dynamic future of the business. The present study consists of theoretical and applications sections. The theoretical section is further divided into two subsections. The first one is about professional management, professional manager and organizational change. The second subsection consists of the factors which forces the bussinesses to change from ownership type of management to professional type of management, difficulties which happens during the transition between the two types of managament, and the precautions which needs to be taken against the resistances likely to occur during the transition stage. The second main section of the study contains an application of the idea of transition from ownership type of management to professional type of management to some of the businesses in the industrial region of Gaziantep. Science Code: EKON 590