Permissions were taken both from company owners and HR and Production Managers by visiting
small and medium scale companies in the food and manufacturing sector in Kocaeli and Istanbul; this
study was conducted with 330 people working for these companies. Some of the companies were
personally visited and by this means participants were directly reached, the scales filled out by the
employees were taken back on the same day. When the companies are classified according to the number
of the employees, 3 companies employs more than 250 people, 2 companies employ 50-249 people and 3
companies employ 10-49 people. The people filling out the questions of the scale were blue collars and
majority of them were graduates of primary school. When the filled scales were checked with eyes, the
scales of 34 people were taken out of evaluation due to the reasons such as not filling most of the
questions, ignoring the scale, filling out in a hurry to pass it off, getting bored. Since the number of
questions left unanswered by 296 people was, at most, nearly 5% of the total number of questions
answered, these questions that were left unanswered were filled by using series mean method and all data
were made complete.