Yenilikçi Davranışları Etkileyen Faktörler: Devlet Hastanesi Örneği (Factors Affecting Innovative Behavior: State Hospital Example)

Abstract

The aim of this study is to determine the health personnel's views on innovative behaviors and the factors affecting their innovative behaviors. The study was conducted between 21 December 2015 and 31 May 2016 in Kırıkkale State Hospital and Lüleburgaz State Hospital. The study was carried out with 200 participants who did not participate in the sample selection and accepted to participate in the study and who had at least one year of study. The ages of the participants were between 19 and 57, and the arithmetic average was 34.52 ± 9.08. 69% of the participants were women. 41% of the nurses and 20.5% of the staff consist of administrative staff. 70.5% are married and 39% are undergraduate. The service years of the participants vary between 1 and 34 years. The mean arithmetic year of service was 11.51 ± 9.24, the mean duration of working in the institution was 5.75 ± 3.27 and the mean number of monthly seizures was 6.43 ± 2.60. Most of them (85%) are subject to 657. “Has any Innovation been introduced to your professional practices?"the question was answered by 166. With 30.1%, the answer is yes, it was seen that 69.9% of the participants gave no answer. Especially in the development of innovative behaviors, management support, working conditions and technological developments were found important. In addition, influential factors in developing innovative behavior by gender vary. Women find work load more effective than men in developing innovative behavior. Determining effective factors in developing innovative behavior, the elimination of barriers and the development of strengths will directly affect the service offered. Thus, health professionals will be able to renew themselves continuously, job satisfaction will increase and all this will be reflected in the quality of service.