Organizational stressors, work–family interface and the role of gender in the hospital: Experiences from Turkey

Abstract

What is already known on this subject? In Turkey, gender has rarely been considered in the healthcare studies. Rapid changes in health reforms are making healthcare professionals more vulnerable to stress. The deteriation in the health system impacts women more than men, as higher ratios work in outsourced services. What does this study add? Despite signifcant changes in attitudes towards women, nurses are treated as "mothers" of the clinics. Women as health workers are particularly exposed to multiple stressors, that are rooted in ideals about gender. Understanding the way healthcare is organized along gendered lines is a precusor to any real organizational change.

Improving quality and safety in the hospital: The link between organizational culture, burnout, and quality of care

“…All the studies in the series lean towards a job demands/job resources model of occupational stress (JD‐R model, Demerouti, Bakker, Nachreiner, & Schaufeli, ). However, they go far beyond it, and it is obvious that issues such as blame (Lentza et al ., ), under‐appreciation (McGowan, Humphries, Burke, Conry, & Morgan, ), loose governance (Spanu et al ., ), justice (Todorova et al ., ), and gendered workplaces (Turk, Davas, Aksu, & Montogomery, ) do fit easily into demands and resources SEM variable boxes. The richness of the contextual information presented should remind us as to the dangers inherent in reifying variables.…”

Key worklife areas contributing to health care burnout: Reflections on the ORCAB project

“…Lean management practices eliminate wasteful activities, allowing health care workers to devote their time to productive efforts with a minimum of busy-work and red tape. Some progress occurs in this manner, but too often increase in productivity occur simply through reducing resourcesstaffing in particularwhile maintaining or increasing patient demand (as reported in McGowan et al, 2014;Milosevic et al, 2014;Spanu, Baban, Bria, & Dumitrascu, 2013;Turk et al, 2013). The only option for the remaining workers to close the resulting gap is to work longer or more intensely.…”

“…Changes in health care systems often include restructuring workgroups, disrupting ongoing working relationships, weakening their sense of community (As reported in Karadzinska-Bislimovska et al, 2014;Milosevic et al, 2014;Silva et al, 2013;Turk et al, 2013). Building new working relationships is an integral part of health care work, but requirements to rebuild relationships during restructuring add to workers' work demands.…”

“…Workers often find the procedures for making critical decisions to be obscure. As noted in the research articles (e.g., McGowan et al, 2014;Milosevic et al, 2014;Todorova, Alexandroa-Karamanova, Panayotova, & Dimitroa, 2014;Turk et al, 2013), tensions of workers with administrative employees become pervasive in times of limited resources. The two groups have contrasting views on the rationales for major decisions that shape their shared work setting.…”

Inconsistency of Sentinel Events and No Gender Difference in the Measurement of Work-Related Stress

“…These aspects are considered in the literature as factors that not only contribute to defining a general condition of work-related stress but are also markers of gender differences in responses to environmental pressures (Bellman, Forster, Still, & Cooper, 2003;Conti, 2009;Davidson & Cooper, 1983;Turk et al, 2013).…”