Abstract:

Being stable and reliable employees in the actions of the security sector employees at individual level, however taking risks to acceptable extent, can be considered as an important issue for the future of the sector and the security of the community. This research is aimed at determining the relationship between the performance of the security sector employees and the risk-taking tendencies. The study’s work group consists of 662 adult employees working in the various provinces of a security organization in Turkey. 642 (97%) of participants are men and 20 (3%) women. The study group is formed from adults aged 23 to 56 and the average age is 34.62. During the research process, the data was collected through the participant's computer system and risk preference test (RISIKO) and the participant's information collection form was simultaneously filled by the manager, taking advantage of the personal identity files. To analyze the data, the Tukey test was used as one of the post-hoc tests to determine the effects of multi-dependent variants (MANOVA) and independent variants on the dependent variable. The study found that according to risk-taking tendencies, managerial competence points and managerial reliability points showed significant differences. However, there was no significant difference between the disciplinary penal status and the reward status and the course and the success of the renewal training.

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