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Prevention of Emergency Density With Triage: Simulation-Based Analysis and a Model Proposal
Get PDFThe rapid increase in emergency department admissions often leads to overcrowding, leading to disruptions in treatments, an increase in workload, a decrease in service quality, and the emergence of administrative difficulties. As in all service sectors, it is extremely important to make appropriate planning to provide quality and timely service in health enterprises. This study, conducted in a public hospital emergency department, proposes a new triage practice in emergency departments. According to the proposed triage practice, the duration of the patients' stay in the emergency room and the waiting time between processes are shortened, and appropriate personnel planning that will not endanger the health and safety of the patients has been arranged. According to the simulation data created based on the recommended triage practice, it was determined that the duration of stay of yellow-tagged patients in the emergency room could decrease by 44.45% and by 83.44% in the waiting time in the first examination queue. In addition, with the new personnel plan, it is foreseen that 20.24% of the working hours of the doctor, 30% of the working hours of the nurse, 40% of the working hours of the medical secretary, and 50% of the working hours of the registry staff can be achieved
A Qualitative Study Related Influence of Personality Contribution of Executives to Their Jobs on Job Satisfaction
Get PDFPeople currently spend much of their most productive time at work place. Due to recent remote work and similar processes made possible by sophisticated developments in information technologies, it would not be wrong to to suggest that employees have been in interaction with their job for 24/7. Therefore feelings of employees about their job consist areas of research, one of which is job satisfaction. Although there is a a variety of approaches to relationships between job satisfaction and work performance, what is generally accepted is that job satisfaction influences both individual and organizational work performances/ satisfaction. Likewise, numerous factors with impacts on job satisfaction exist. The current study examined influences of Personality Contribution to Job of top managers and executives. The consequences of the research on face to face interview with thirty executives indicated that job satisfaction tended to create different impacts on managers who have status and managerial experiences in organizations of different industries
Inward FDIS and Employment Relationship at The Peak of Globalization: An Analysis on Developing Countries
Get PDFGlobalization and the developments it brings are changing the economic problems of countries and, it is necessary to reconsider many economic phenomena that have been stabilized before. One of these economic phenomena is employment. Employment draws attention as one of the important issues associated with the welfare of the people in national economies. However, global developments affect people's ability to have a job or keep their current job as well as other economic phenomena. One way of creating employment, especially for the economies of developing countries, is through inward foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI is the money flows that come to the fore in the literature with their direct and indirect impact on employment. Today, it is known that there are employment discussions in developing countries, especially with the covid-19 pandemic. Based on this information, this study aims to examine the effect of FDI on employment in developing countries, especially in the 2000-2019 period when globalization reached its peak. In the study, the effect of foreign direct investments on unemployment rates in 23 developing countries that are in the middle-income group was analyzed by panel regression method. According to the estimation results, foreign direct investments in developing countries reduce unemployment rates
Comparative Investigation of Inflation in Pakistan and Turkey: Fresh Insights from the Wavelet Coherence Approach
Get PDFPakistan and Turkey share the same macroeconomic fundamentals as energy dependence, double digits inflation, and tremendous currency depreciation. This paper aims at analyzing the impact that exchange rate, interest rate, and oil price have on the inflation rate in Turkey and Pakistan by using the data period of 2010:M1-2021:M12 and employing the wavelet coherence model. The results show that currency deprecation boosts inflation in both economies. Interest contribution to inflation is more significant in the case of Pakistan compared to Turkey while oil prices only increase inflation in Pakistan compared to turkey. To reduce the impact of currency depreciation on inflation in both nations, an increase in export policy can be implemented, similarly, foreign direct investment can be attracted. Additionally, both nations need to increase the inflow of funds and need to reduce the outflow of funds which will also help them stabilize the currency
A Heterogeneous Dynamic Panel Approach to The Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle: Evidence from The European Union Countries
Get PDFThis study investigates whether the Feldstein and Horioka puzzle concerning domestic saving-investment relationship is supported by the data of the European Union (EU) countries using Cross-Sectional Augmented Error Correction Model (CS-ECM), Cross-Sectional ARDL (CS-ARDL) and Cross-Sectional Augmented Distributed Lag Model (CS-DL), the recent heterogeneous dynamic panel approaches which are robust to cross-sectional dependence and slope heterogeneity. The findings of the study imply high capital mobility for the EU countries over 1995-2021, and thus reject the existence of the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle
Predictors of Online Shopping Behavior of Women in Turkey: A Model and Empirical Study
Get PDFWomen’s dominant position in purchase decisions brings them to a primary decision-making position in families and households in terms of shopping. In this study, sociodemographic and economic factors, which were, included taking into account individual differences to explain the online purchase intention of female consumers living in Turkey, are aimed to be observed in terms of their difference. The data used in this study were obtained from Information and Communication Technologies in households conducted by the Turkish Statistical Institute between 2014 and 2018. The data were collected from a total of 68,087 people. In the study, a chi-square independence test was used to examine the relationship between women’s e-commerce usage and sociodemographic and economic variables, and the results indicated a significant relationship. Binary probit and binary logistic regression analyses were then conducted to detect the factors influencing e-commerce usage among women 15 years and older in Turkey. According to the results of the study, it was determined that the survey year, age, education, employment status, income status, region, and household size variables affect women’s e-commerce usage. Users’ reactions to e-commerce shopping practices can be analyzed in detail, and e-commerce can be used more widely by using different methods. Based on the results of this study, it is suggested to inform and raise awareness of users about the use of e-commerce
Functional Antecedent of Corporate Reputation in Universities: Developing A Measurement Tool for the Corporate Reputation Attributes (CRA)
Get PDFIt is important for universities seeking to gain a competitive advantage to focus on reputation management like all other institutions. At this point, although university rankings are helpful, each university's management of its reputation by positioning itself according to its unique characteristics will yield more effective results.
The Reputation Quotient (RQ) Scale, which is frequently used in the literature for measurement, complicates the understanding of reputation by considering the antecedents of reputation together with the structure itself. RQ has been updated as the RepTrak System Model to separate them: RepTrak Pulse covers the measurement of emotion-based pure reputation perception, and RepTrak Index covers the measurement of reputation antecedents.
Although emotions are universal, the assumption that reputation-determining driving attributes do not differ across cultures and contexts is problematic. The main objective of the present study is to develop a measurement tool for 'corporate functions and attributes', one of the experience areas that are considered critical in the formation of corporate reputation perceptions in Turkish state universities.
The study was carried out with the exploratory sequential mixed-method design. In the first study, the experience areas that determine the reputation perceptions of the academicians were revealed, while the second study focused on developing a context-specific measurement tool.
The Corporate Reputation Attributes Scale consists of five dimensions including Working Environment and Governance, Research and Education Capacity, Social Awareness, Innovation and Social Networking and Recognition, and 24 items.
It is recommended that universities include corporate reputation management in their priority areas in their strategic plans, and that they base their strategies on current situation analyzes that they will carry out with measurement tools such as CORPORATE REPUTATION ATTRIBUTES (CRA)
The Effect of Tenants Housing Cost Burden on Household Economic Hardship in Turkey
Get PDFThe aim of this study is to contribute to the poverty literature in Turkey by associating the serious economic difficulties experienced by the tenants with the burden of housing costs. Housing costs, which are an important expenditure item for households, reduce non-housing expenditures such as health, education, food, and clothing, and thus cause serious economic difficulties for households. The empirical analysis relies on data derived from the TURKSTAT Income and Living Conditions Survey (ILCS) micro data set for 2021. We limited our research to tenants aged 15 and over who are in the respondent of the household. We first worked with the probit model to understand the impact of actual and perceived housing cost burdens on household economic difficulties. In the following part, We worked with ordered probit models to determine the probability of households being unable to pay their electricity and water bills, rent, interest-bearing debts, or housing loans as planned in the last 12 months, and finally being unable to meet their total expenditures with their total income. We acted with the hypothesis that those responsible for households who have heating problems due to insulation are unemployed (or not working), have health problems, are single, have a low education level, and have a low income are traditionally included in the disadvantaged categories. Our findings indicate that as housing expenses increase, the probability of households experiencing severe economic difficulties also increases. As housing costs rise, individuals are more likely to be unable to pay their rent, energy, and water bills once or twice a year. The excessive increase in housing and rental costs in Turkey in 2022 has further exacerbated the economic hardships faced by impoverished individuals. Consequently, the findings from 2021 imply that the severity of economic hardships will continue to increase in the coming years
Structuring the Mediation Effect of Organizational Commitment between Abusive Supervision and Employees Work Performance
Get PDFThe topic of abusive supervision in the workplace is among the most studied subjects in different disciplines, including psychology, organizational behavior, and related fields. However, researchers and scholars ignore the mediation effect of organizational commitment in the relationship between abusive supervision and employee work performance. Moreover, there is a lack of studies undertaken on this issue in the public sector. This research data was collected in the Republic of Togo central government institutions and state-owned organizations, which are of particular importance and are filled with civil servants. The random sampling method was applied to collect the data from 214 respondents through structured survey questionnaires. The finding revealed that organizational commitment is mitigating the negative effect of abusive supervision on employees' performance. The results also showed that even though employees with normative commitment are most attached to the organization, they are less productive than individuals with affective and normative commitment. Finally, the study concluded that civil servant with a strong organizational commitment doesn't show up on their supervisor's behavior but instead bear the character of "good citizenship.
Analyzing the Impact of Consumer Confidence Index and Geopolitical Risk Indices on Foreign Trade in Food Commodities: Evidence from Turkey
Get PDFIn recent years, the increase in global crises in areas such as climate, food, health, and international relations has led to an increase in the level of interest of both economists and senior managers in macroeconomic indicators. In this context, the consumer confidence index and the geopolitical risk index have become increasingly popular in both econometric analyses and academic discussions. In this study, the effects of consumer confidence and geopolitical risk indices on food imports and exports in Turkey for the period between January 2013 and January 2021 were analyzed through symmetric and asymmetric causality analyses. The consistent results of the Toda Yamamoto causality and Hatemi-j asymmetric causality tests indicated that a decrease in the consumer confidence index in Turkey leads to a decrease in exports of processed food goods and an increase in geopolitical risk leads to an increase in imports of unprocessed food goods