Author(s)

Safiye Turgay ¹, Buse Burcu Bulut ¹, Semiha Sezer ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Industrial Engineering, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey
² Department of Social Science, Sakarya University, Sakarya, Turkey

Corresponding Author

Safiye Turgay

ABSTRACT

In the pandemic period, the health sector has vital roles for the people. At the same time, it gets the necessity to study and review of this field. Health services and hospitals consist of different knowledge and qualification personnel’s. In addition, these factors are getting difference among the people. Increasing motivation closely related to positive effect to working performance. Health institutions and hospitals have complex organizational structure consisting of personnel with different knowledge and qualifications. In addition, the effects of these factors on personnel motivation vary from person to person. Our aim is to find out the actors that affect the motivation of the personnel working in a health institution and which factor is more or less effective in the work environment. It is known by everyone that an increasing professionalization in health management will increase the performance and productivity of the personnel who become a whole with the company they work for, are aware of their duties and responsibilities and can give all their motivation to the work they do. In this study, performance criteria and motivation factors searched and examined. Management factors, individual factors and occupational other factors are analyzed in small health business company. Survey and performance applied analysis of 67 personnel belonging to a small health business during the COVID -19 pandemic period.

KEYWORDS

Factor analysis, conceptual framework, motivation, health services, regression analysis

CITE THIS PAPER

Safiye Turgay, Buse Burcu Bulut, Semiha Sezer, The Analysis of Staff Motivation Factors during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study from Small Health Business. Social Security and Administration Management (2023) Vol. 4: 15-27. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/socsam.2023.040103.

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