Establishment of Individual Performance Evaluation System in a Health Business and a Pilot Practice

AbstractWhile the improvements in the field of management cause organizations to give importance to subjects like effectiveness and productivity, on the other hand it enables to determine the performance of the personnel, which is one of the determining factors in corporate success. In this study, 360 degree performance evaluation, which is one of the current and problematic subjects of the human resources applications, is analyzed and supported by an empirical research. At this study, in which the theoretical information is discussed, briefly includes the necessity of the performance evaluation in classical terms and its benefits to the organizations, 360 degree performance evaluation and feedback system; there is an empirical practice including the discussion of the views for creating a 360 degree performance evaluation criteria and feedback system to evaluate the performances of the nurses working in a training research hospital

Evaluation of Anatolian Alevi people living in Istanbul with “Purnell' Cultural Competence Model”İstanbul’da yaşayan Anadolu Alevilerinin Purnell’in Kültürel Yeterlilik Modeli ile değerlendirilmesi

The purpose of this study is to evaluate Anatolian Alevi People Living In Istanbul With Cultural “Purnell' Cultural Competence Model”. Sample of this qualitative conducted study includes total 30 Alevi people aging between 19 and 56, registered at Ümraniye Ihlamurkuyu djemevi. Snowball sampling method was used to select sample. The research data were collected in the form of a semi-structured interview form, written recordings and voice recordings, which included the topics included in Purnell's cultural competence model to assess cultural features.Focus group interviews were conducted between January and March 2017. Data were collected by using voice and written records. Collected data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis and semiotics methods. It is reported that early marriage, marriage with relatives and early pregnancy are common, and alcohol and smoking are rare in Alevi population. In addition, it was also reported that there are some negative perceiving such as double standard in society, low health service opportunity, and religious discrimination. Results found in the research showed that there are not significant differences between Anatolian Alevi and Turkish population on social demographic and social structures. In order to decrease this perceiving, more social and cultural combining programs may be conducted.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetBu araştırmanın amacı, İstanbul’da Yaşayan Anadolu Alevilerinin Purnell’in Kültürel Yeterlilik Modeline bağlı olarak değerlendirmektir. Niteliksel türde desenlenen araştırmanın evrenini, Ümraniye Ihlamurkuyu cem evine kayıtlı olan Türk kökenli 19-56 yaş arası toplam 30 alevi oluşturdu. Örneklem seçiminde kartopu örnekleme yöntemi kullanıldı. Araştırma verileri, kültürel özellikleri değerlendirmek için Purnell’in kültürel yeterlilik modelinde yer alan temaları içeren yarı-yapılandırılmış görüşme formu ile yazılı kayıt ve ses kaydı şeklinde toplandı. Odak grup görüşmeleri Ocak-Mart 2017 tarihleri arasında gerçekleştirildi. Elde edilen veriler betimsel analiz ve gösterge bilimsel analiz yöntemleri ile değerlendirildi. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre Alevilerde erken yaşta evlilik, akraba evliliği ve erken gebe kalmanın yaygın olduğu, alkol ve sigara kullanımının az olduğu ifade edildi. Araştırmada elde edilen bulgular, Türk Alevilerinin aslında sosyo demografik ve sosyal yapılarının Türk toplumunun genel yapısından farklı olmadığını, temelde inanç farklılığı üzerinden, Türk toplumunda var olan olumsuzlukların buna yorulduğu görüldü. Bu algının azaltılması için, daha fazla sosyal ve kültürel kaynaşma programlarına yer verilebilir

Innovative approach to the ethics in health care organizations: health staff perspective

Eren, Erol (Arel Author) --- Conference: 9th International Strategic Management Conference, 6 November 2013.Ethics in health care services, especially for the health staff, has been an important topic of the quality improvement in health care organizations. It is argued that there must be some ethic rules based on patient rights and these rules must be obtained by health care professionals. In a health care service process, nursing services take more duration than of physicians. Thus, ethics rules are mentioned mainly for the health staff. The other important recent topic of health care system is innovation concept. Innovation may be applied in many fields such as equipment, personnel, method or physical environment. However, there has been not any research on innovation of ethic rules for the health organizations. For this reason, it is aimed in this research to evaluate ethic rules in health organizations in perspective of innovation concept. Results of the study showed that ethics rules must be developed based on change in sociality including legislation, and knowledge, while some of them must remain

Perceptions of Spirituality and Spiritual Care of Health Professionals Working in a State Hospital

Background: The determination and fulfillment of the spiritual needs of the individual in times of crisis can be realized by the health care professionals having the knowledge and skills to provide individual-specific care. This research was conducted to determine the perceptions of health professionals about spirituality and spiritual care. Methods: The study of 197 health professionals working in a state hospital was performed. This study is a descriptive study which was conducted between December 2017 and January 2018. Data in the form of an “Introductory Information Form” and “Spirituality and Spiritual Care Grading Scale” was collected. In the analysis of the data, the Mann–Whitney U test, Kruskal–Wallis tests, frequency as percentage, and scale scores as mean and standard deviation were used. Results: It was determined that 45.7% of the health professionals were trained in spiritual care, but that they were unable to meet their patients’ spiritual care needs due to the intensive work environment and personnel insufficiency. The total score averaged by the health professionals on the spirituality and spiritual care grading scales was 52.13 ± 10.13. Conclusions: The findings of the research show that health professionals are inadequate in spiritual care initiatives and that their knowledge levels are not at the desired level. With in-service trainings and efforts to address these deficiencies, spiritual care initiatives can be made part of the recovery process

Impacts of privatization of management of health organizations on public health: Turkish health sector evaluation

Eren, Erol (Arel Author) --- Conference: 9th International Strategic Management Conference. 6 November 2013.Health organizations have been known as non-profit organizations and privatization of these organizations seem to be liberalism in public management. On the other hand, new public business approaches showed that managing non- profit organizations as they are profit organizations increase quality in performance of these organizations. In other words, privatization of management for non-profit organizations is solution of new public business approach for performance increment. In Turkey, health organizations have been managed by professionals hired from outside of the organizations since 2009. In the research, it is aimed to evaluate results of the privatization of health management before and after privatization processes. SWOT analysis is performed and two different management approaches are compared in the perspectives of strategic management

Decentralization in health services and its impacts: SWOT analysis of current applications in Turkey

Eren, Erol (Arel Author) --- Conference: 9th International Strategic Management Conference, 6 November 2013.Decentralization and its applications are important issues of the strategic management operations. Since new public management (NPM) and new public business approaches have transformed structure of the non-profit organizations, decentralization and managing non-profit organizations as they are profit organizations have taken place in the field. In Turkey, health organizations have been decentralized and being managed by sub-managerial parts. On the other hand, the trend for decentralization since World War II in health services recently changed its direction to re- centralization in some countries. The paradigm of decentralization and re-centralization process and its impacts in Turkish Health system is evaluated in the research. According to this aim, SWOT analysis is performed, and strategic managerial decisions, its impacts and public health promotion applications are compared for before and after decentralization period

Polymorphisms of TLR1, TLR4 and SLC11A1 genes in some cattle breeds reared in Turkey

© Ankara Üniversitesi Ziraat Fakültesi.The objective of this study was to examine the allelic and genotypic profiles of four SNPs of bovine Toll-Like receptor 1 (TLR1), Toll-Like Receptor 4 (TLR4) and Solute Linkete Carier 11A1 (SLC11A1) genes in Holstein, two Turkish native breeds and their crossbreds in Turkey. For this purpose, a total of 1023 cattle from Holstein (HL, n= 410), Anatolian Black (AB, n= 106), East Anatolian Red (EAR, n= 84), Anatolian Black Crossbreed (ABC, n= 124) and East Anatolian Red crossbreed (EARC, n= 299) breeds were examined for four SNPs. Samples were genotyped using by the PCR-RFLP method. According to the TLR1 (+1380) SNP, EAR was in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) while the AB, HL and native crossbreeds were deviated from HWE. All cattle breeds were in HWE for the TLR1 (+1596) SNP. In terms of TLR4 (+10) SNP, the CC genotype had the highest frequency in HL and native crossbreeds whereas the AB and EAR breeds were monomorphic and only CC genotype was found these breeds. According to the SLC11A1 (+1066) SNP, the CC genotype had the highest while the GG genotype frequency the lowest in all breeds. In addition EAR breed was in HWE while the AB, HL and native crossbreeds deviated from HWE