Assessment of Health Personnel’s Opinions About Diversity Management: Case of A Public Hospital

Year 2018, Volume: 8 Issue: 4, 276 - 283, 28.12.2018

Elif Arslan Gökhan Aba

Abstract

Objective: The purpose of this research was to determine the diversity perception

between the healthcare professionals within the scope of the diversity management

and also to review whether there was a relationship between the demographic

features of these professionals and the diversity climate.

Methods: 381 healthcare staffs who were working in a public hospital in Istanbul

District attended to this descriptive research. The research data was obtained by the

face to face meeting method via the survey. The results of the study was analyzed by

SPSS program, and the significance level was accepted as p<0,05.

Results: The attendees mentioned that the first differentness factors that separate

a person from another were respectively the character (65,1%), education (47,5%)

and culture (46,5%). The attendees who have higher monthly income perceived the

differentness climate as more favorable in comparison with the attendees with lower

income. This positive perception was seen as higher in physicians than the nurses

and the midwives. The attendees who born in Istanbul perceived the diversity climate

as more positive than the attendees who born out of Istanbul.

Conclusion: It was found in this survey that the available demographic variables

did not occur a significant difference in the diversity perception. The employees who

work in the health sector need to work concertedly with each other. The individual

differences which apart from the unconvertible differences such as age and gender;

and cause conflicts and unjustness between them should be eliminated or minimized.

Keywords

Diversity, Diversity Management, Healthcare Personnel

References

• [1] Hubbard EE. The Manager’s Pocket Guide to Diversty Management. Amherst, Massachusetts: HRD Press; 2004.