Factors affecting job satisfaction in Turkish forestry

Abstract

Achieving job satisfaction of employees in today's forestry is an undeniable fact in terms of successful resource management. This study aims at examining the most significant factors affecting job satisfaction in Turkish forestry. Two different questionnaires were applied to 496 interviewees from two different interest groups associated with the forestry section of the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs in the nine geographical regions of Turkey. People to be interviewed were determined using the layered-simple random sampling method. The obtained data were evaluated via descriptive statistics, and also, whether the ideas of the interviewees related to the most significant factors affecting the job satisfaction differ according to the regions, the units studied, the task and the experience were inspected by the Kruskal-Wallis H Test. The different groups were determined via the Duncan Test. Accordingly, the vast majority of interviewees identified "unfair and incompetent personnel policy" and "political pressures" as the most significant factors affecting the work efficiency in the Forestry Organization. On the other hand, the majority of employees are satisfied from their works and they think "the feeling to be useful to the community" as the most important factor affecting job satisfaction. Similarly, the majority of employees have "medium level" satisfaction with the wages they receive and they are open to share their opinions on issues related to forestry. Also, most of the interviewees have the idea that the management and inspection mentality which is far from political, social and administrative pressures will increase the job satisfaction. Likewise, 75% of employees feel unsafe in any legal inquiry about the task. All these negativities were revealed and interpreted as factors reducing job satisfaction and so success. According to these results, some suggestions were developed towards increasing job satisfaction.

Constraints Affecting the Teachers’ Job Satisfaction of Odisha University of Agriculture and Technology, Odisha

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Human resources for forestry in Kazakhstan: Current status, potential and problems

“…The average wage of a forester in the Russian Federation is 20,147 Russian rubles (about $ 279) (Trud.com, statistics of wages of foresters in Russia), an engineer of forestry of all categories -35,238 Russian rubles (about $ 489) (Trud. com, statistics of wages of forestry engineers in Russia) at that, the average monthly nominal salary for 2020 is more than 49,000 Russian rubles (about $ 680) (Federal State Statistic Service). The study on forest workers in Indonesia also suggested that they are dissatisfied with their salary (Gandaseca and Yoshimura 2001) whereas most of the employees are satisfied by their wages in Turkey (Köse et al 2020).…”

“…24% of the surveyed experienced accidents during work many of which were caused by chainsaws or axes and 47% of those surveyed were dissatisfied with their jobs mainly because of low salary and heavy work which affected the cumulative fatigue of forest workers (Yoshimura and Acar 2004). The study of Köse et al (2020) on 496 people from 9 provinces of Turkey ob-served that the unfair and incompetent personnel policies and political pressure are main factors that are affecting work satisfaction in Turkish forest sector.…”

“…Similarly reports of World Bank (2018) and Anderssen and Ardfors (2021) covered other aspects and problems related to forest plantations of Kazakhstan, but no data related to human resource have been covered. Whereas reports from other countries like Turkey (Yoshimura and Acar 2004;Yurdakul Erol 2017;Köse et al 2020) Keeping this in mind, the aim of this research is to assess the human resource's works, his/her position, education, gender, the specialty according to the diploma, the age of the employee, work experience in forest management and problems faced by human resources of the forestry in municipal state forest management institutions (MSFMIs) of Kazakhstan for the first time.…”