A study for performance assessment method of nurses

While organizations assigning future targets and forming strategic plans, they shall evaluate the sources they have accurately. No matter manufacturing or service sector, ?Human Source? is the strongest ad the most effective source the operations use to decrease the fertileness and the quality.Reviewing the employees with their abilities, activities, increment, insufficiencies, working methods, with all aspects in short, is possible with performance evaluating. Performance evaluating results are used as input in training, development planning, labor force planning, career planning, wage management, promotion or release systems.Nurses, consist the largest working group of the institutions rendering health service and have an important role for serving in high quality.In the first chapter of the thesis, Performance Evaluation is introduced with all aspects and its contribution for using the Human Sources efficiently and effectively is told. Performance Evaluation Process is operated step by step, performance evaluating methods are mentioned, and 360 Degrees Performance Evaluation Methods are accented. In the second chapter of the thesis, necessity of Performance Evaluation in Health System and importance of performance in Nursery services are told. In the last chapter, feasibility of Performance Evaluation for Nurses, which consists the subject of the study, is tested with 360 Degrees Performance Evaluation Method in a public hospital. Average points of unit nurses that consists the research staff and responsible nurses according to the performance evaluation results are accounted, nurses own performance evaluation is compared with their performance evaluation by chiefs, workmates or inferiors and finally the differences between the performance perceiving are propounded.The results are evaluated and commented with statistical techniques.Key Words: Performance, Performance Management, Performance Evaluation, 360 Degrees Performance Evaluation, Performance Evaluation for Nurses.