Evaluation of University Students' Perceptions in the Concept of Human Resources Manager with Metaphorical Analysis: The Case of Sakarya University
Abstract
HRM, which offered a limited application areas in the past years, shows a bright and stable development today. The future of HRM presents a variety of options and a wide range of opportunities to candidates interested in this profession. The fact that HRM offers these opportunities increases the interest in this profession today, and it is more important and meaningful especially for students studying in this field. With this study, it is aimed to reveal the perceptions of the students, who give importance to the field of HRM and who may prefer it as a profession in the future, about human resources management. In the research of the study, the phenomenology design, one of the qualitative research methods, was used. The study group of the research; Sakarya Business School consisted of 188 human resources management students attending the third and fourth year. The data of the research is like “human resources manager ............... because .........” was collected through an open-ended form. The obtained data were analyzed with content and descriptive analysis technique and tables were created using the MAXQDA program. It was observed that human resources management undergraduate students produced a total of 80 metaphors for the concept of human resources manager. The metaphors produced were handled in 7 categories. It was determined that the metaphors developed by human resources undergraduate students for the concept of "human resources manager" were mostly in the concepts of bridge, building block of the enterprise, mother, teacher, manager, father and wheel.
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