The evaluation of education faculty’s staff’s job expectations based on generations in Turkey

Abstract

The present study aiming at determining the level of job expectation of instructors according to generations was carried out in descriptive survey based on quantitative method. The population of the study is the instructors in education faculties in all public universities in Turkey. The sampling of the study consists of 674 instructors at education faculties in 68 public universities. The data was conducted in spring semester 2014-2015. As the data collection instrument ‘Job expectation Scale’ by Balcı and Bozkurt (2013) was used. It was found that level of job expectation of instructors is quite high. According to the results of level of job expectations of instructors regarding seniority, level of job expectations of instructors having 6-10 years of seniority is higher than the instructors having 16-20, 26-30 and 31 and more seniority. The results of the level of job expectations of instructors in terms of generation support the results related to seniority. The study showed that Y-generation instructors’ level of job expectations is higher that the instructors from baby boomers.