The effect of mushroom management perception on burnout levels in healthcare workers: A public hospital case study

Practices such as creating a positive organizational climate, adopting open communication, and keeping employees' motivation high can positively affect organizations, while the opposite practices can lead to negative organizational results. In the health services sector, which is a labor-intensive sector, in order to provide quality health services with minimum error and high efficiency, health workers should have positive feelings both at the individual level and towards the organization. Although it is necessary to use it under certain conditions, mushroom management is a management practice that has been recognized negatively in the literature. Mushroom management is associated with a large number of negative organizational outcomes and one of these organizational outcomes is thought to be burnout. Therefore, the aim of this study is to examine the effect of mushroom management perception on burnout in healthcare workers. For this purpose, healthcare workers working in a public hospital were selected as the study population. Among approximately 1700 healthcare workers, 381 people were included in the study by convenience sampling method. Parametric tests were used in the analysis of the data suitable for normal distribution. As a result of the data analysis, it was determined that mushroom management perception was positively and moderately correlated with burnout (p<0.01; r: 0.686), and a one-unit increase in mushroom management perception caused a 0.68 increase in burnout level (p<0.01). Among the sub-dimensions of mushroom management, it was found that the concern about loss of power was significantly higher in men than in women, and in the sub-dimension of lack of participatory management, the postgraduate groups were significantly lower than the other education levels (p<0.05). It was determined that there was no difference in terms of mushroom management sub-dimensions and general scores according to other demographic characteristics (p>0.05). It was found that personal success, one of the sub-dimensions of burnout, was significantly higher in women than in men (p<0.05), and in the depersonalization sub-dimension, the high school education level group had a significantly lower score than the other groups (p<0.05). It was determined that there was no difference in terms of burnout sub-dimensions and general scores according to other demographic characteristics (p>0.05). These findings were analyzed within the framework of the literature and some suggestions were presented. Keywords: Mushroom Management, Burnout, Health Management.