Cooperative Members’ Participation Status and Trends to Cooperative Management: Case of Regional Union of Agricultural Credit Cooperative in Balıkesir

Abstract

Cooperatives are organizations that are managed by partners. The behavior and approaches of the partners related to cooperative management affect the success of the cooperative. This study aimed to determine the following; level of awareness about the cooperative management of members, tasks take trends in the cooperative management who didn’t take task in the cooperative management, members participate in the cooperative management. 
 The data were obtained by face-to-face interviews with the 367 cooperative members in Balıkesir, Bursa and Çanakkale province. Participation of members in the cooperative management of the situation revealed non-parametric statistical methods, logistic regression analysis method and fuzzy paired comparison method were used. 
 56,25% of the members think as, "states should be effective in reaching decisions on the cooperative". According to logistic regression analysis young partners tend to think that way than older partners. Only 20% of members who didn’t take task in the cooperative management, want to take task in the cooperative management in future. These members follow-up agricultural meetings and use internet for reach agricultural information. 45% of members joined last cooperative management meeting. According to fuzzy paired comparison method, the most influential factor in the choose management decision is “to trust management candidate”. 

The Relationship Between Members’ Participation and Organizational Trust in Cooperative Firms: A Case of Dairy Cooperatives in Izmir Province/Turkey

“…After examining the studies made in the literature, it was seen that the willingness to participate in the management in different cooperatives was low. In a study conducted with the members of agricultural credit cooperatives, it was determined that 79.38% of the members (Everest, 2015) and in another study carried out on the members of the agricultural sales cooperative, 87.5% of the partners (Özdemir, 1996) did not want to take part in the management.…”

“…The high rate of participation in general assembly meetings is fundamental for cooperatives. In a study which was conducted with the members of the agricultural credit cooperatives it has been determined that nearly 55% of the members do not attend the meetings (Everest, 2015). It can be said that the level of participation in the meetings varies by the types of cooperatives.…”

“…The desire to participate in the management varies according to the people, while some of them are eager to participate in the management, others do not even attend the meetings. In the studies which were conducted, it was found that this situation was related to the reasons such as age, education, and size of the enterprise (Ertan and Turan, 2001;Karlı and Çelik, 2003;Everest and Yercan, 2016). In this sense, this study attempts to examine the organizational trust levels of the dairy cooperative members in Izmir and to present the participation of the members in the management according to their trust levels.…”

Analysis of Partner –Cooperative Relations in Agricultural Development Cooperatives of Bursa Province

“…Şahin et al (2015) investigated the managers' characteristics in ADC in Turkey. Everest and Yercan (2016) analysed the factors affecting partners' participation in the management of the Agricultural Credit Cooperatives in Balıkesir Regional Association and Yercan and Kınıklı (2018) in dairy cooperatives Izmir province.…”