Yavuz, Selahattin; Aka, Salih

Food manufacturing sectors have sensitive and complex production processes due to the use of perishable products, labor-intensive production infrastructure, and hygiene requirements. Factors threatening occupational health and safety, such as chemicals used to reduce contamination and infection risks during product preparation, processing, and handling, irregular working environments, the use of cutting mechanical tools, and insufficient protective equipment, can cause disruptions to production schedules and imbalances in production. Non-ergonomic work arrangements reduce overall production performance, while work accidents resulting from occupational health and safety risks disrupt workforce continuity. In manufacturing environments where occupational health and safety risks are high, decreased capacity utilization rates, production plan revisions, and order delays become inevitable. This study aims to identify occupational health and safety risk factors that may lead to revisions in production management plans in food manufacturing and to reveal the relationship between these risk factors. In this study, occupational health and safety factors are examined from the perspective of production and ergonomics, and the cause-and-effect relationship between the factors is investigated. Considering the qualitative and uncertain nature of the factors, fuzzy DEMATEL was chosen as the analysis method. The findings indicate that risks arising from protective equipment shortages and a disorganized workplace have direct impacts on the emergence of all other risks.

Kemahli Garipoglu, Funda; Yildiz Karakoç, Duygu; Sezer Sanli, Aysem

Feminist politics is in a constant state of motion within itself and has undergone significant argument changes in different periods. While the first wave feminism brought the demands for rights and equality to the fore, the second wave feminism expressed the need to put an end to the long-standing distinction between private and public spheres. Third-wave feminism, on the other hand, argued that women were not dominated in one way, but were exposed to different forms of domination, and discussed this discourse on the axis of the concept of intersectionality. In this study, the response of the second wave feminism to the public-private dichotomy of the private is political discourse on urban public spaces is discussed in the context of the intersectionality concept introduced by third wave feminism. The main argument of the study is that there are still many obstacles to the experience of women in the urban public sphere, however, women at the intersection of different domination and discrimination are more exposed to these obstacles and limitations. In this context, after the theoretical discussions on intersectionality and the dichotomy of private/public space in this study, the ways in which women, whose domination and exclusion intersect in many areas due to reasons such as class belonging, ethnicity, and belief, cannot be included in the urban public space are presented by discussing concrete examples.

Oktar, Merve Nur; Negiz, Zeynep Uyanik

The negative effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, which started to spread all over the world in 2019, have been tried to be solved by various methods. Social worker, which has a relatively more important image and reputation in our country recently, has a critical role in epidemic situations such as Covid-19, which have negative sociological and psychological effects. Psycho-Social Support was created to minimize negative perceptions, psychological and sociological effects during the Covid-19 pandemic and help people affected by Covid-19. In this current research, it has been tried to discover how functional this practice is on society and how it is perceived by social workers. This study was designed with the qualitative method. 10 social workers who are working in the Ministry of Family and Social Services and the Ministry of Health were interviewed. As a result of the research, it was understood that social workers took an active role in the implementation of psycho-social support. It has been revealed that social workers have discovered their strengths and gained awareness thanks to the practice.

Akkaynak, Bilal; Yildirim, Suat

The purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of derivative financial instruments on banks' capital structure. For this purpose, between 2012 and 2017, banks operating in Turkey and analyzed regularly using derivative products. Panel data analysis method was used in the study. Capital structure variables were used as dependent variables, the use of derivatives on assets and liabilities, tangibility, profitability, size, risk, growth opportunities and liquidity variables were used as an independent variable. A total of 4 models have been established in order to analyze the effect of derivative use on assets and liabilities on capital structure. As a result of the analysis, the effect of derivative product on borrowing was found to be statistically significant and positive in all models. In addition, liquidity and profitability variables were negatively corelated with borrowing and risk, tangibility, growth opportunities and size variables were positively corelated with borrowing.

Yildiz, Sebahattin; Sakal, Onder; Alhas, Fidan; Kosa, Gozde

The purpose of this study is to investigate the validity of the concept glass cliff in the sample of Turkey. A questionnaire was applied to 407 students who took the course of business administration in Kafkas University. In the study, it was investigated which one from two candidates (a male and a female) for a vacant senior management position, is perceived to be more preferable at which period (whether it is the positive financial performance period or the negative financial performance period). The dimensions of suitability, leadership ability and reliability were used while making the selection for the glass cliff position. The participants were asked to evaluate the questions concerning these dimensions at separate periods (in the positive financial performance scenario and in the negative financial performance scenario). It was concluded in the study that the participants did not perceive the female manager candidate to have a higher potential as a CEO in a scenario in which the company performance is negative. In conclusion, the concept of glass cliff which is applicable in countries with high level of masculinity can be asserted not to be invalid in Turkey, where the masculinity is low.

Soyyigit, Semanur; Topuz, Huseyin; Özekicioglu, Halil

In today's world economy, where the composition of exports has gained importance rather than the size of export volumes of countries, how sophisticated products a country produces and exports indicates the complexity level of that country. In this study, the effects of economic complexity index, export and gross fixed capital formation variables on per capita income are analyzed for 18 countries in the G-20 community. The findings of the study reveals positive impact of economic complexity index on per capita income for Brazil, China, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Turkey and the US while revealing negative impact for Argentina, Australia, Canada, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. Brazil is the only country differentiates from the other countries in the sense of having the increasing export share of primary products (raw materials and intermediate goods) while having decreasing export share of manufactured products and also in the sense of having positive significant relationship between the economic complexity level and per capita income.