This study was designed and carried out to identify the methodologies of the staff evaluation used by the headnurses and their perception on the purpose of the evaluations, and to measure the degree and type of perceived purpose and the degree of implementation of staff evaluation principles into preactice.
A hundred and eleven headnurses from four general hospitals with 600 beds and over were conveniently sampled. Data were gathered from August 20, through September 10, 1994 ; demo-graphic data of respondents and ´methodologies used for staff evaluation´ by questionaires, level of `perceived purposes of staff evaluation´ and level of implementation of the ´principles of staff evaluation into practice´ by Likerttype rating scales developed by the researcher. Raw and percentile scores and means were calculated and data were processed further by t tests and ANOVA.
Results are as follows ;
1. Traditional methodlogies : checklists (90. 1%)and ranking methods(45.9%) revealed to be the two mostly prefered and used methods.
2. Of the 20 itemdescriptions of the ´purpose of staff evaluation´ : 10 ´control, evaluative´ and 10 ´noncontrol, developmental´ the first (mean=3.19) to the ninth(mean=2.74) in rank order reavealed to be the ´control, evaluative purpose´, while the tenth in rank order revealed to be the first among the ´noncontrol, evaluative´ item (mean=1. 57).
3. Level of purpose of staff evaluation perceived as ´control ; evaluative´(mean=43.76, S.D.=S. 01) revealed to be significantly (t=3.86, p <.05) highter than ´noncontrol ; developmental´(mean=40.65, S.D.=3.41).
4. Level of implementation of ´staff evaluation principle into practice´ revealed to be moderately high (mean=2.40).
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