Financial Manager Selection with Analytic Network Process Method in Public Hospitals

The fact that the vast majority of hospital enterprises are publicly owned, and that management technology is guided by public regulations obliges that hospitals conform to the professional management characteristics of both the general management and the financial structure. Considering to conditions in Turkey, it is seen that an important position as finance director is undertaken mostly by physician’s managers. In public hospitals, it is important to know which criteria are in effect when measuring the qualifications or levels of knowledge of financial managers, or employees. While determining this, multi-criteria decision-making methods are helping to overcome the difficulties that may arise in the decision-making process. In this study, it was determined factors affecting the selection of financial managers in public hospitals. Then, the weights of these factors were calculated by the Analytical Network Process (ANP) method, which is a multi-criteria decision method. The application was made in a public hospital in K？r？kkale and the candidates were selected. According to the results obtained by working; the strongest candidate is the head of financial services with a share of 33%, followed by the treasurer of circulating capital with an equity of 25%