Abstract:

Goal: Today, the success of organizations is often increasing or decreasing properly in proportion to the work of the human resource employed in that business. Thus, organizations are entering the way to evaluate both their own and their employees’ performance. This is the case in healthcare institutions. The aim of this study is to provide information on performance assessment in health institutions and to evaluate research that includes the opinions of health workers in Turkey on performance-based wage application in their countries. Method: In the study, the basic logic of performance-based payment was first referred to the concepts of performance and performance assessment to understand. Then, accordingly, the methods of performance assessment in health institutions were briefly discussed and the application of additional wages based on performance in health institutions was discussed. Studies that analyze the opinions of health workers on performance-based payments have been studied and evaluated (sources available online from the electronic database of the National Thesis Center, Google Academic and MagazinePark between the years 2014-2019) and have been evaluated. Results: The performance-based payment system must be arranged as a method that remuners the contribution of employees and will satisfy the patients, so that it will not cause unfair wages. Originality: This study differs from other studies in the direction of providing information about the performance-based wage application applied today in health institutions, collecting health workers’ opinions on the subject and assessing the performance-based payment system in terms of patients, the country’s economy and health services.

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