Transition from public personnel administration to human resources management during privatization process and T.C. Ziraat Bankasi sample

As a result of the change that takes place all over the world,decrease in the size of government and one of the ways of minimizing thegovernment, privatization became inevitable. Privatization is basically definedas taking a service or public economical agency out of state control, andgiving to private sector by its entire means. The reason for privatization is tosolve problems caused by public economical agencies and ?unessential?duties that are held by the government and to provide resources for thegovernment.There are ways of privatization including giving the ownership, givingthe rights on the agency partially or completely, or giving the right of a publicservice to private sector. It is up to the government authorities to decidewhich way suits the country best and it is their job to find the right way for thecountry. Privatization is a subject matter in the Turkish Republic since thedevelopment of the country, privatization actions has been taking place fasterand being the center of public attention since 1985.Looking at the effects and change that came with privatization; it ismostly about the personnel situation in the privatized public economicalagencies or the ones planned to be privatized. This is also about solving thepersonnel administration problems of ? The Turkish Public Administration?that are already being discussed.One of the areas change is taking place is public personneladministration, where the concept itself became human resourcesmanagement just to adjust the time being. This transformation didn?t alwayscompletely come through but when it came to public economical agencieswhich always had to be in one to one competition with the private sector, ithad made itself clearer.By the time public personnel administration became humanresources management, personnel came to be understood as humanresources and characteristics of being human and what has been separatingit from the other production factors came to be understood. At this pointhuman resources management, subject of which is basically to raiseproductivity, developed through pleasing, planning and improving humanresources those which are present and those which are potential.But this development didn?t always take place as much as expectedin both public and private sector and also hasn?t given the results expectedfrom it. Mostly personnel departments? names have been changed intohuman resources departments and once in a while a real change anddevelopment could be seen in big enterprises, some public associations andpublic economical agencies.T.C. Ziraat Bankası A.Ş. which has been developed in nineteenhundreds and still has an important role in theTurkish Banking sector hasalso been through the changes of its time in both banking sector and publicsector as a part of both sectors. In this main frame it is now a part of theprivatization process. To be privatized, it seems that it has to first fit to privatesector structure and be able to compete with its counterparts. Having animportant part in the sector, its human resources management system alsohas to be developed. Its goal being successful in the sector, and to be able tocompete and be better in the modern banking sector; the problems in humanresources management should be found and solved as a priority. The studiesin developing human resources to be more efficient are still being continuedin the Bank as it should be.