Job satisfaction level of the employees at puplic sector: A study at Milli Savunma Bakanliği Akaryakit İkmal ve Nato Pol Tesisleri

ivABSTRACTAlthough current attempts to define the multiple dimensions of poverty, whichis a social problem, are underway it is difficult to determine the thresholds wherepoverty begins and ends. Nevertheless poverty in fact is a problem existing in allsocieties without a distinction between developing or developed countries. The levelof the problem varies in accordance to social, economic and political structures of thecountry, its geographic location and effectiveness of social and economic policiesbeing implemented.While being clearly observable in Turkey, poverty is spreading by feeding offstructural problems of the country such as low levels of education, unemployment,existence of the unrecorded economy, insufficient social security system, economiccrises, inequitable income distribution and regional differences.The fact that poverty in Turkey is in large part related to structural problems itssolution requires efficient and stable economic policy along with social policies.Leaving aside efficient economic policies designed to alleviate and prevent povertypublic social assistance programs initiated by the public sector has a tremendousimportance in battling poverty. Unfortunately it is not possible to speak of theexistence of a ?social assistance system? in Turkey. In Turkey there appears to bemultitude of legislation and organizations concerned with social assistance whilemany of these organizations and institutions follow a very narrowly focused socialassistance policy.The first comprehensive social assistance program in Turkey concerning all ofthe poor and those in need of help was the Fund to Induce Social Assistance andCooperation established in 1986 as a result of legislation numbered 3294 and theSocial Assistance and Cooperation Foundations established at the province and townlevel to spread social assistance activities through out the country.Although these Social Assistance and Cooperation Foundations are the mostimportant organizations among those providing public social assistance in terms ofscope, they can?t really be classed among modern social security system and ingeneral social policies implemented by other social (welfare) states throughout theworld, to battle poverty.To increase the effectiveness and efficiency of social assistance in battlingpoverty a fundamental social assistance legislation has to be legislated and a socialassistance unit and its local organizations within the social security system has to beestablished. If social assistance for the poor and needy citizens is going to becontinued to be provided by the Social Assistance and Cooperation Foundations theyshould be thoroughly reviewed, especially in regards to their administration andcapacity and restructured to enable them to be more efficient and sustainable insocial assistance services.