Social entrepreneurship tendencies of local government employees: An application on employees of Muğla Metropolitan Municipality Social Sevices Brnach Directorate

In this study, in which the social entrepreneurship tendencies of the employees of Muğla Metropolitan Municipality Social Services Branch Office were investigated, the survey method, one of the quantitative research techniques, was used. The population of the research consists of the employees of Muğla Metropolitan Social Services Branch Office and a questionnaire form was distributed to 350 employees in order to collect the data. Of these, 264 responses were received, and 112 of them were not included in the analysis because they were incomplete and incorrectly filled. The number of valid questionnaires included in the analysis is 152. Data were collected through face-to-face interviews and e-mail. The t-Test was used for the difference between the two groups, and the one-way variance 8one Way Anova) analysis test was used for the comparisons between more than two groups in order to analyze the social entrepreneurship tendencies of the employees according to their social and demographic characteristics. Data analysis was done with SPSS-22 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences- 22) program. As a result of the study, no statistically significant relationship was found between the social entrepreneurship tendencies of the participants and the variables of marital status, working time and occupation. However, it is seen that there is a significant relationship between the gender, age group and education level variables of the participants and their social entrepreneurship tendencies. Accordingly, the average social entrepreneurship tendency point averages of female employees are higher than male employees, and the average social entrepreneurship tendency point averages of employees in the 50-59 and 40-49 age groups are higher than the lower age groups. In the study, it was also concluded that as the education level increases, the social entrepreneurship tendencies of the employees increase. Anahtar Kelimeler: Muğla Metropolitan Municipality, Social Entrepreneurship, Local Administrations, Social Entrepreneurship Tendency