GENÇLİK VE SPOR GENEL MÜDÜRLÜĞÜ’NÜN ÖRGÜT İKLİMİ VE ÇALIŞANLARIN KATILIMLA İLGİLİ ALGILAMALARI

The process of societal change is shaping all types of organization in Turkey. While those organizations providing technical and economic services are becoming stronger and larger, those organizations that are responsible for the delivery of traditional services are getting smaller and keep surviving.The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the employee’s perception of participation and organizational climate in Youth and Sports General Directorate in Ankara. Management of sports organizations may be considered a newly developing area of concern for academicians and practitioners many sports organizations are going throug reorganization process, and to reorganize and restructure it is essential that climate of organization subject to change be understood first. Because organizational change efforts without due consideration given to climate of organization would not be successful. In this study, first, Youth and Sports General Directorate’s historical development is reviewed. Then, the variables used in this study and previous studies concerning organizational climate and employee perceptions of participation is discussed along with the theoritical base for this study. A survey instrument developed for this study is administered to 437 employees of Youth and Sports General Directorate in Ankara. In previous studies employees participation has been defined with tree dimensions of communication, teamwork and participation in decision making situations. The dimensions of organizational climate were categoriezed as bureauciatic, supportive and innovative. Finally, in terms of employee attitude related dimensions were organizational commitment, jop satisfaction and stres. To test the research hypothesis hierachical regression analysis is employed. First, demographic variables such as age, gender, position and experience etc. are entered into the regression model. In the second and third stages of regression models, affective attitudes of employees and climate variables were put into regression models sequentially. Regression analyses show that organizational commitment and supportive climate are significant determinants of perceptions of participation, teamwork, communication and participation in decision making. The results of the of the study shows similarities to the previously conducted research.