title: Organizational variables on nurses' job performance in Turkey: nursing assessments.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The purpose of this study was to describe the influence of organizational variables on hospital staff nurses' job performance as reported by staff nurses in two cities in Turkey. Hospital ownership status, employment status were examined for their effect on this influence.
  
  
  METHODS
  The reported influence of organizational variables on job performance was measured by a questionnaire developed for this study. Nurses were asked to evaluate the influence of 28 organizational variables on their job performance using a five-point Likert-type scale (1- Never effective, 5- Very effective). The study used comparative and descriptive study design. The staff nurses who were included in this study were 831 hospital staff nurses. Descriptive statistics, frequencies, t-test, ANOVA and factor analysis were used for data analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study showed the relative importance of the 28 organizational variables in influencing nurses' job performance. Nurses in this study reported that workload and technological support are the most influential organizational variables on their job performance. Factor analysis yielded a five-factor model that explained 53.99% of total variance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Administratively controllable influence job organizational variables influence job performance of nurses in different magnitude.
authors: Dept. of Health Care Management, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
authors: Mehmet
authors: M
authors: Top
keywords: Job performance; Management; Nursing; Turkey
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