OPINIONS OF HEALTH WORKERS ABOUT WORK PLACE: AN EXAMPLE OF BISMIL PUBLIC HOSPITAL

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate opinions of health workers about workplace on behalf of workers’ rights, occupational safety and relations withadministration in a public hospital. Data were gained from 93 healthworkers working in a district of Diyarbakır , Bismil Public Hospital. Asurvey was conducted among health staff face to face and obtained datawere analyzed by SPSS 15.0 package program. Findings showed that 34,4%of participants were between age of 26-30, 49,5% were female and 83,9%were married. While 53,8% of health staff expressed that they were able toreport their problems to hospital management, 6,5% of them stated thatdirectory of hospital didn’t mind problems of workers. 44,1% of health staffstated that hospital management didn’t take enough measures in order toprovide safety at work. It was also found that 78,5% of participants weresatisfied with trainings for vision and quality of hospital but 33,6% wereunsatisfied with trainings for reporting workplace violence in the hospital.74,2% expressed that employees were not awarded frequently in thehospital. It was found that there was a negative relationship between ageand satisfaction about management relations in the hospital (-,245,p<0,05). This may result from higher expectations of older workers. Alsohealth workers having more work experience were not satisfied withmanagement relations (,269, p<0,01).Health workers who thought they were working in a safe workplace weremore satisfied with management relations (,342, p<0,01). When relationshipbetween work experience and satisfaction with definition of task wasanalyzed, a negative correlation was found (-,229, p<0,01). A positivecorrelation was found between effective use of human resources and precisetask definition ( ,288, p<0,01). As a result it can be said that priority shouldbe given to improve relationships between management and staffs.Employees should feel themselves as a part of the organization.