Aim: This study has been carried out as defi nitive to determine job satisfaction and mobbing perception of health care workers.
Method: Three hundred and ninety healthcare professionals were enrolled in the study. Study data were collected with a personal information form, mobbing perceptional scale, and the Minnesota Job Satisfaction Scale. In the analysis of the data, percentage distribution, the Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal Wallis Variance nalysis and Pearson’s correlation analysis tests were used.
Results: It has been determined %57.5 of health care workers are exposed to mobbing and 32.8% of physicians, of 41.1 % of the and technicians 56.3 % of midwives who exposed to mobbing did not do anything in this case but only 33.8 % of nurses shared this with their friends. %92 of health care workers stated that mobbing aff ects job satisfaction negatively. It has been determined that there is a strong relationship between mobbing perception and job satisfaction of health care workers and job satisfaction has been found to decrease with increasing perception of mobbing (r=-.40, p=0.00).
Conclusion: It has been stated that more than half of health care workers are exposed to mobbing and mobbing aff ects job satisfaction of health care workers negatively.