The Determination of the Concepts of Human Resource Management Functions According to Employees Demographic Characteristics: A Field Study

In this study, firstly, the concept of human resource management is discussed. secondly, it is investigated that whether or not, the concepts of human resource functions of a total of 117 employees working at a business enterprise in garment industry, according to demographic characteristics. in other words, the main objective of this study is to determine the differences between demographic characteristics of the concepts of human resource functions. the data were gathered by human resource functional concept scale consisting of 30 questions. in this context, frequency analysis, factor analysis, reliability analysis, kolmogorov-smirnov normal distribution tests were applied by using spss 14 program. in this context, hypotheses were formed and tested by applying mann-whitney u and kruskal wallis tests. in conclusion, the concept of salary management and regularity of employees shows differences according to work year and number of child; the concept of career management and fair behavior of employees shows differences according to income level; the concept of training and motivation of employees shows differences according to income level; the concept of to be promoted in organization of employees shows differences according to number of siblings.