ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE PERCEPTION OF HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Year 2021, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 79 - 91, 29.06.2021

Deniz Yüksel , Birgül Yabana Kiremit , Gizem Zevde Aydın

https://doi.org/10.29131/uiibd.943983

Cited By: 3

Abstract

Covid-19 virüsü hızla dünyaya yayılmış ve dünyayı dolayısıyla da organizasyonları etkileyen tehditlerden biri haline gelmiştir. Covid-19 pandemisi hala devam etmekte ve kurumlar yeni normale uyum sağlamakta zorlanmaktadır. Çalışma ile, sağlık çalışanlarının Covid-19 pandemisi sürecinde çalıştıkları kuruma yönelik örgütsel dayanıklılık algılarını ölçmek amaçlanmıştır. Tanımlayıcı nitelikteki bu çalışmanın örneklemini bir üniversite hastanesinde çalışan 200 sağlık personeli oluşturmaktadır. Veriler, sağlık çalışanlarının sosyodemografik özelliklerini ve Örgütsel Dayanıklılık Ölçeğini içeren bir anketle toplanmıştır. Elde edilen veriler ortalamalar ve yüzde dağılımları, parametrik ve parametrik olmayan testler kullanılarak yorumlanmıştır. Covid-19 salgını sırasında iş organizasyonu ile ilgili yapılacak değişiklikler hakkında bilgilendirilme sorusuna cevap veren katılımcıların örgütsel dayanıklılık puanları ile diğerleri arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur (p = 0,001). Benzer şekilde Covid-19 salgını nedeniyle hastane yönetiminden görevden ayrılma talebinde bulunan katılımcılarla bulunmayanların örgütsel dayanıklılık puanları arasında istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir fark bulunmuştur (p = 0,005). Sağlık kurumları, salgının şiddetini azaltmak ve krize rağmen süreci iyileştirmek için büyük destek sağlamaktadır. Sağlıklı ve dayanıklı sağlık kurumları, kriz süreçlerini hızlı bir şekilde öğrenme fırsatlarına dönüştürmelidir.

Keywords

Covid-19 virüsü, Covid-19 virüsü, Hastane, Sağlık çalışanı, Dayanıklılık, Organizasyon

ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE PERCEPTION OF HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

Covid-19 has spread all over the globe rapidly and has been one of the threats affecting the world thereby organizations. The covid-19 pandemic has still been going on, and institutions have struggled to adapt to the new normal. This study aims to measure organizational resilience perceptions of healthcare professionals towards the institution they work during the Covid-19 pandemic process. The sample of this descriptive study was consisted of 200 healthcare personnel working at a university hospital. Data were collected with a questionnaire including healthcare personnels’ sociodemographic characteristics and the Organizational Resilience Scale. The data were interpreted as numbers, means, and percentage distributions, parametric and nonparametric tests. There is a significant difference between the participants' organizational resilience scores who answered the question about being informed about the changes to be made regarding their work organization during the Covid-19 outbreak and the others (p=0.001). Similarly, there is a significant difference between organizational resilience scores of the participants who have requested to be dismissed due to the covid-19 outbreak from their duty from the management and the ones who have not (p=0.005). Healthcare institutions offer great support to reduce the severity of the epidemic and improve the process despite the crisis. Accordingly, healthy and resilient healthcare institutions must quickly turn crisis processes into learning opportunities.

Keywords

Covid 19 virus, Hospital, Health personal,, reseillience, organization

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