Abstract:

The purpose of the study is to show the role of self-respect and control focus in the organizational context of the competitive attitude of employees. The basic hypotheses of the study were structured to determine "whether there is a relationship between employees' self-respect and competitive attitudes" and "whether there is a meaningful difference between employees' control focus and competitive attitudes". The sample of the study consists of 322 individuals working in public, private and participating banks within the district center and district borders of Kastamonu. The study used Roosenberg’s self-esteem scale (1963), Rotter’s control room scale (1966) and the competitive attitude scale (1998) in the study. The findings have shown that self-respect of employees has an impact on competitive pleasure, result-focused and comparison, which is the lower dimensions of competitive attitude and competitive attitude, while there is no meaningful difference between control focus and competitive attitudes of employees.