Human Resources Management and Training in Metropolitan Municipalities in Turkey

Abstract

By the 2000s, human resources management in local government in Turkey had become an important issue. Training is one of the most important functions of human resources management; there is an important relationship between the development and increase of the capacities of local government personnel and training. Within the context of the metropolitan municipalities organizational structures in Turkey, there are ‘human resources and education departments'. Firstly, the relation between human resources management and training will be searched. Secondly, the regulations of human resources and education departments of metropolitan municipalities in Turkey have been examined to put forth the main duties and responsibilities of those departments and their branch offices on training. In the last part of the study, human resources and education departments' training programs in Turkey will be clarified.