Strategic Importance of Human Resource Practices on Job Satisfaction in Private Hospitals

This study aims to define the relationship between practices of human resource management and job satisfaction of employees in service enterprises particularly within hospitals. It is aimed to investigate definitions of job satisfaction and corporate studies within framework and then to reveal the effects between job satisfaction and training, assessments, career planning, communication, work definition, awarding, preference activities which refer to practices of human resource management. Afterwards, a research conducted on human resource practices is analyzed. The study was conducted on white-collar and blue-collar human resources working in 5 private hospitals of Eskişehir Province. Survey method was used to collect research data. SPSS 22 program was used to analyze the collected data. Factor analysis, reliability analysis (Cronbachalphas), correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analyses related to hypothesis tests were conducted to analyzed the data. Furthermore, mean and standard deviations of variables related to descriptive statistics are presented in the study.