THE EFFECT OF WAGE ON PRIVATE SECURITY OFFICERS JOB SATISFACTION AND INTENTION TO QUIT: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN TURKEY

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal whether there is a difference between job satisfaction and intention to quitlevels of the private security officers in terms of the wage they receive in accordance with employment types(Public-Private sector). The population of the study includes the private security officers working in İstanbul.Random sampling was conducted in the study. As a result of the questionnaires carried out in the context of thequantitative paradigm, 6249 data were found analyzable. In this study, the job satisfaction scale, developed byWeiss et al. (1967), and the intent to quit scale, developed by Scott et al. (1999), were used. According to theresults, there is a statistically significant difference between job satisfaction and intention to quit levels of theprivate security officers employed in the private sector at each wage category. However, although there is astatistically significant difference among intention to quit levels of private security officers employed in thepublic sector at each wage category, there is an only statistically significant difference in the maximum wagecategory regarding job satisfaction level.