İs Job Embeddednes Affected by Human Resources Management Practices and Personnel Empowerment; A Research In Turkey and Iraq ?

Abstract

It is important that employees contribute to the organization, work at high performance, embrace the organization's goals, and adapt so that organizations can achieve their goals, secure their existence and compete strongly. Harmony between the organization and its employees can be ensured by the employee's satisfaction with his job, his integration into the organization, his commitment to his work, his contribution to the organization's goals job embeddedness. The concept of job embeddedness, which answers the question of why employees stay in the organization, can be influenced by a number of variables. Considering the importance of continuity and harmony of health workers, who bear the brunt of the pandemic process that occurred in December 2019, in health care companies, The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of human resource management practices and personnel empowerment on job embeddedness in the health sector in two different countries, compare the results, develop proposals based on the data obtained, present new data to researchers, and contribute to the relevant literature. The research was conducted through a survey of health sector company employees in Turkey and Iraq. Analyzes of the data were made with SPSS 25.0 package program. As a result of the research: The salary and reward dimensions of human resource management have an effect on job embeddedness in companies in Turkey. In the enterprises in Iraq, data were obtained that the dimensions of education and performance evaluation were effective on job embeddedness. Another finding from the research is that personnel empowerment has an impact on job embeddedness in both countries.