Abstract:

OBJECTIVE: To compare nurses’ attitudes towards productivity with the organizational and managerial structures in hospitals. METHODS: The study is descriptive in design. The study population consists of 1061 nurses working in 18 government, university, and private hospitals on the European side of Istanbul. In order to colle ct the data, a survey on the nurses’ socio-demographic background and aspects of their hospital’s administrative and organizational structures was distributed. Additionally, a 39-item "Attitude on Productivity Scale" with 5 subgroups was used. The data were obtained after ethics committee approval and individually collected from each hospital. Data were analyzed using SPSS 17.0 package program. RESULTS: The average score of nurses’ attitudes towards productivity is at a medium level (48.98±11.44); the sub-dimension of "dedication to job" (70.35±15.93) is the highest, while the sub-dimensions of "working conditions" (33.04±16.16) and "awarding" (33.02±20.86) are the lowest ones. The comparisons between the nurses’ attitudes towards hospital productivity with a total score and subscale scores in hospital building systems and structures and nursing and general management style are statistically significant (p .001). CONCLUSION: The results indicate that hospital building systems and structures as well as nursing and general management approaches do affect the nurses’ attitudes towards productivity and future improvement efforts on these issues can have a positive impact on these attitudes.

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