Çalışma Mutluluğu Düzeyi ve Algısı: Özel Sektör Avukatları Üzerine Bir Araştırma

Year 2020, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 89 - 104, 17.04.2020

Nuray Turan

https://doi.org/10.18394/iid.553308

Cited By: 2

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın amacı, özel sektör avukatları arasında çalışma mutluluğunu ölçmek, çalışma mutluluğunu nasıl ifade ettiklerini ve algıladıklarını ortaya koymaktadır. Bu amaçla, 168 özel sektör avukatının katıldığı bir karma araştırma yöntemi tasarlanmıştır. Avukatların genel çalışma mutluluğu ortalamasının 5’li likert ölçeğine göre 3,07 ile ortalama düzeyde olduğu görülmüştür. Avukatlar çalışma mutluluğunu “potansiyeli gerçekleştirme, çalışma ortamı koşulları, huzur, işi severek yapma, para/gelir/ücret” olarak ifade etmektedir. Çalışma mutluluğunu gelir/para/ücret ile ifade eden avukatların genel çalışma mutluluğu 3,24 ortalama ile diğerlerine göre en yüksek ortalamaya sahiptir. Çalışma mutluluğunu “potansiyeli gerçekleştirme” ile ifade eden avukatların olumlu duyguları “huzur” ile ifade eden avukatlardan; “huzur ve para/ücret/gelir” ile ifade eden avukatların ise; “işini severek yapma” ile ifade eden avukatlardan daha yüksektir.

Keywords

Pozitif Psikoloji, Çalışma Mutluluğu, İşveren Avukat, İşçi Avukat

Level and Perception of Happiness at Work: A Study on Private Sector Lawyers

Abstract

The aim of this article is to measure happiness at work among private sector lawyers and to reveal how they express and perceive happiness at work. To this purpose, a mixed research methodology with 168 private sector attorneys was designed. The average happiness at work of the lawyers was found to be 3.07 on the 5-point Likert scale. Lawyers express their happiness at work with” realizing the potential, working environment conditions, peace, doing the job with pleasure, money / income / wage”. The general happiness at work of the lawyers who expressed their happiness at work in terms of income / money / wages has the highest average with 3.24 average. The positive feelings of the lawyers who expressed their happiness at work with revealing “own potential" an are those of the lawyers who expressed their positive feelings with “peace”; “peace and money / wages / income” stated in the lawyers; It is higher than the lawyers who express yapma doing their job with pleasure ”.

Keywords

Positive Psychology, Happiness at Work, Employer Lawyer, Labor Lawyer, Internal Lawyer

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