REFLECTIONS OF QUALIFIED PERSONNEL TURNOVER TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Abstract

Qualified personnel turnover means the loss of qualified personnel by organizations. Losing qualified personnel is risky especially for labor-intensive organizations such as the health sector. This research has been conducted to discover the results of the qualified personnel turnover at the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey. In order to fulfill this aim, qualitative research method and phenomenological design have been used. The participants of the research consist of twenty personnel with a postgraduate degree who have begun to work for other institutions upon leaving the Ministry of Health in the last ten years and have participated in the research voluntarily. The data was collected by meeting with every participant face-to-face and using a tape recorder. At the end of the research, the thoughts of the participants on the reflections of qualified personnel turnover to the Ministry of Health have been grouped under two themes as “effects on the institution” and “effects on the remaining personnel”. No study has been carried out on this subject at the Ministry of Health and it is aimed to fill this gap in the literature with this research.

Keywords

• Qualified personnel,personnel turnover,ministry of health,qualitative research,phenomenological design

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