II. INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON TOURISM, ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS SCIENCES-ICTEBS 2018, Kocaeli, Turkey, 1 - 04 November 2018, vol.1, no.1, pp.59
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between commitment to profession, organizational loyalty, and intention to leave levels of healthcare personnel working at different levels in health institutions. The study was conducted with convenience sampling method to 250 nurses, midwives, medical secretary, emergency medical technician, and other personnel whose working in different clinics and polyclinics which is affiliated to Ministry of Health in Istanbul. The data was obtained with permission of the facilities and the scales of commitment to profession, organizational loyalty, and intention to leave was conducted to data collection. The data were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 22.0 program. Descriptive statistical methods were used. Ttest, one-way ANOVA, The Tukey Post Hoc, Anova test, Pearson correlation and regression analysis was used. The results of this study shows that the mean rank of the commitment to profession and organizational loyalty levels medium; and intention to leave level was found weak. There is a high and positive correlation between commitment to profession and organizational loyalty (r=0.722; p=0,000<0.05); and very weak and negative correlation between general organizational loyalty, and intention to leave (r = - 0.202; p = 0.000 <0.05) of the health care personnel participating in this study. Regression analysis was used to determine the effect between commitment to profession, organizational loyalty, and intention to leave levels. Commitment to profession and organizational loyalty, have a negative effect on the level of intention to leave (F=18,359; p=0,000<0.05; F=10,563; p=0,001<0.05) respectively. It has been observed that general commitment to profession and general organizational loyalty levels have explanatory power over intention to leave levels (R2 = 0,065; R2 = 0,037) respectively. Finally, It has been observed that general commitment to profession level have explanatory power over organizational loyalty level (R2 =0,520).