Political Discrimination In The Process Of Employee Recruitment and Work Life in the Organization: A Study at Hotel Establishments

Abstract

This study sets out to find out whether there is a political discrimination towards the employee recruitment and work-life in the organization by the perceptions of employees and employers. Within this scope, a questionnaire was administered to 407 employees and 108 managers in Ankara at 4 and 5 star hotels. The characteristics of the participants have been analyzed through frequency and percentage distributions. Besides, the opinions of the participants on the statements, in the second part of the questionnaire were analyzed through arithmetic average and standard deviation. In order to find out whether the opinions about political discrimination of the employees and the managers differ significantly in terms of the process of recruitment and the organizational life and to find out whether there is political discrimination during the process of recruitment and in the organizational environment differ in demographic features and organization-related features t-Test and for independent samples for more than two groups variance analysis was employed. In the research, it is stated that the participants have thought that political discrimination took place in terms of both processes, even though at a low level. Within the light of these findings, some suggestions were put forward in order to eliminate political discrimination in organizations.