Özlem Özer

The impact of work alienation on organizational health: A field study in health sector

ABSTRACT This study aims to examine the impact of work alienation on organizational health. The implementation of the research is conducted on the nurses and physicians working in a public hospital and the data collected from 388 people are evaluated. As a result of the analyses carried out, work alienation’s subdimensions and correlations with organizational health are moderate in the negative direction and the subdimensions of perception of work alienation explain the 21.5% of total variance on organizational health. When the test results of regression coefficient significance in the regression model are analyzed, increasing levels of powerlessness and self-estrangement of the participants decrease the perception of organizational health statistics. Order of relative importance predictor variables on the organizational health level is such as powerlessness, self-estrangement, and meaninglessness.

Effect of Health Literacy on Health Perception: An Application in Individuals at Age 65 and Older

ABSTRACT This study has been conducted to look through the effects of health literacy levels of individuals age 65 years and older on their health perceptions. The application part of study is composed of persons being age 65 years or older who live in Burdur province and districts of Turkey. The sampling of study has been determined by a nonclustered, single-step random probability sampling method based on primary mass ratios. Thereby, totally 611 questionnaires have been implemented by means of the face-to-face interview method. As a result of the analyses carried out, the subdimensions of health literacy explain 16.3% of total variance on the importance of health, 6.4% of total variance on the center of control, 10.8% of total variance on the self-awareness, and 16.1% of total variance on the certainty. In addition, it has been identified that the correlations of health literacy subdimensions with the health perception subdimensions were statistically significant, in the same direction, at low and medium level. These results show that the health literacy sub-dimensions is an important determinant on the health perception dimensions.

Do Gossip Functions Effect on Organizational Revenge and Job Stress Among Health Personnel

This study aims to determine the relationship between gossip functions, organizational revenge and job stress among working personnel in hospitals. The research is conducted on working personnel in a university hospital and the data from 310 people was analyzed. Data were collected by convenience sampling. Simple correlation and multiple regression analyses were performed to evaluate the relationships among the variables in the study. As a result of the analyses carried out, correlations between gossip functions and job stress are low. Correlations between gossip functions and organizational revenge and correlation between job stress and organizational revenge are average and significant. While the gossip functions explain 31.1 per cent of total variance on organizational revenge, organizational revenge explains 11.3 per cent of the variance on job stress. Limited number of works examining the gossip functions in the health sector and the relation among organizational revenge and job stress are the most important value of this study.

Effect of Organizational Justice on Work Engagement in Healthcare Sector of Turkey

Work engagement is a concept that reflects a positive way of thinking that relates to commitment and involvement to one’s organization, his/her enthusiasm and energy. In relevant literature there is a wide range of studies focusing on the relation between work engagement and a set of variables. Thus this study was executed to analyze the effect of organizational justice on work engagement. Implementation stage of the research was conducted on healthcare personnel working in a state hospital in Turkey and data were collected from 414 healthcare employees. Conducted analyses revealed that the correlations between subdimensions of organizational justice and work engagement were positive and in medium level. In the regression analysis which was implemented to measure the effect of subdimensions of organizational justice on work engagement it was identified that subdimensions of organizational justice perception in tandem explained 33 per cent of total variance. It can thus be claimed that climbing organizational justice perception increases in turn in a statistically significant way the work engagement level of the personnel. As regards work engagement, the most significant effect was created by procedural justice subsequently followed by distributive and interactional justice.

SAĞLIK ÇALIŞANLARININ ÖRGÜTSEL DEPRESYON DÜZEYLERİNİN BELİRLENMESİ

The aim of this study is to determine the level of organizational depression of health care workers and to reveal whether the individual and demographic characteristics of the employees are effective on the level of organizational depression or not. The universe of this work that is a descriptive research covers whole health care workers who serve in a public hospital in Ankara. In the study, sampling method was not applied, the whole universe (670) was tried to be reached, the data were obtained from total 278 workers. According to the results derived from the study, it has been determined that organizational depression levels of health care workers participating in the study show a statictically significant difference in line with their occupational status and age, but their marital status, gender, education and working experience do not create a difference in terms of organizational depression levels. In the research, it has been fixed that the level of organizational depression falls as age increases and the level of organizational depression of nurses is higher than physicians and other health care workers.

THE DETERMINATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEPRESSION LEVELS OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS

The aim of this study is to determine the level of organizational depression of health care workers and to reveal whether the individual and demographic characteristics of the employees are effective on the level of organizational depression or not. The universe of this work that is a descriptive research covers whole health care workers who serve in a public hospital in Ankara. In the study, sampling method was not applied, the whole universe (670) was tried to be reached, the data were obtained from total 278 workers. According to the results derived from the study, it has been determined that organizational depression levels of health care workers participating in the study show a statictically significant difference in line with their occupational status and age, but their marital status, gender, education and working experience do not create a difference in terms of organizational depression levels. In the research, it has been fixed that the level of organizational depression falls as age increases and the level of organizational depression of nurses is higher than physicians and other health care workers.

THE DETERMINATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL DEPRESSION LEVELS OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS / SAĞLIK ÇALIŞANLARININ ÖRGÜTSEL DEPRESYON DÜZEYLERİNİN BELİRLENMESİ

The aim of this study is to determine the level of organizational depression of health care workers and to reveal whether the individual and demographic characteristics of the employees are effective on the level of organizational depression or not. The universe of this work that is a descriptive research covers whole health care workers who serve in a public hospital in Ankara. In the study, sampling method was not applied, the whole universe (670) was tried to be reached, the data were obtained from total 278 workers. According to the results derived from the study, it has been determined that organizational depression levels of health care workers participating in the study show a statictically significant difference in line with their occupational status and age, but their marital status, gender, education and working experience do not create a difference in terms of organizational depression levels. In the research, it has been fixed that the level of organizational depression falls as age increases and the level of organizational depression of nurses is higher than physicians and other health care workers.