The relationship between human resources practices and motivation in health institutions: A research in Istanbul

This research was conducted to reveal the relationship between human resources practices and motivation in health institutions. For this purpose, the human resources practices scale and the work motivation scale were used in the quantitative research. The scale of human resource management practices; It has six dimensions: human resource planning and job analysis, finding and selecting human resources, training and development, performance evaluation and career management, wage management and reward system, and occupational health and safety. The work motivation scale has two dimensions: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. 400 people working in health institutions operating in Istanbul participated in the research. A statistically significant difference was found in the perceptions of the health institution employees participating in the research regarding human resources practices according to their gender, age, duties, professional seniority, and working time in the institution. Training and development according to educational status; according to whether they have administrative duties; Statistically significant differences were found in the main dimension and all sub-dimensions, except for the dimensions of training and development, performance evaluation and career management. No statistically significant difference was found according to their monthly income. In the main dimension of extrinsic motivation and work motivation, according to the gender, age, marital status, and administrative duties of the health institution employees participating in the research; While there was a statistically significant difference in the extrinsic motivation levels according to their professional seniority and working time in the institution, a significant difference was found in the intrinsic motivation levels according to their duties. The general perception levels of health institution employees towards human resources management practices were found at medium level and their job motivation levels were found to be high. As a result; positive, significant, moderate level between human resources practices sub-dimensions and intrinsic motivation; It was concluded that there is a positive, significant and high level relationship between extrinsic motivation.