Abstract
ORGANIZATIONAL STRESS EFFECTS ON LABOUR PERFORMANCE
Purpose of this study is to set forth the relationship between organizational stress encountered by healthcare employees and their performance, to determine how work force performance is affected by current organizational stress factors. Questionnaire is applied to 150 healthcare employees (N=286) having duty at Bandırma Public Hospital; 118 questionnaires collected and fully answered are taken under assessment. Doctorate thesis of Şule Aydın and Postgraduate thesis of Gonca Ergün are used for stress evaluation scale contained in the questionnaire form as well as article studies of Okutan and Tengilimoğlu are used for the performance assessment scale. Data obtained from the questionnaires are assessed with reliability and regression analysis as well as one way anova, hypothesis tests, correlation and regression analysis by using SPSS 20.0 program. Consequently; dense stress occurs on healthcare employees due to first organizational structure and management structure, second reasons arising from work structure, third general environmental factors, forth personality structure factors and fifth intra-organizational physical conditions. Main stress factors relating to personality structure are professional risks and diseases. Most stress causing factors are “Not leaving sufficient time for family and social life” among the stress factors relating to work structure, “insufficient salary and fee imbalance” among the stress factors relating to organizational structure and management, “no resting place” among stress factors relating to intra-organizational physical conditions. Females experience stress arising from personality traits compared to males. It is determined that the is positive and highly significant relationship between work success, work satisfaction and work structure, organizational structure and management structure.
Keywords
Organızatıonal Stress, Workforce performance, Health care workers.