Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Assistant Professor, Health Management, Health Management and Economic Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. (Corresponding Author) Email: shams@mng.mui.ac.ir
2 MSc, Psychology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
3 BSc, Health Services Management. Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan. Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: Management is one of the most important factors for life, development, growth or death of any organizations including hospitals. The power is of one of the main concepts that by focusing on the fundamental and theoretical efforts considered as an important factor at all levels of management and human resources. Managers who know the sources of power and are using them, have more effective management and better performance. By using manager's power sources, participation of employees can increase. The main objective of this study was to survey the relation between cooperation of employees and managers power sources (reward, obligation, legal, specialty and being reference power) in selected general hospitals of Isfahan city in 2009.Methods: In this descriptive- analytical and practical study 140 employees from four hospitals (Al Zahra, Amin, Kashani, Esabne Maryam, Noor) were studied in 2009. Sample and hospitals were selected randomly. Two questionnaires of power resource and employee's cooperation were used in this study. For analyzing the relation between cooperation score of employees and manageress' power resources score, T-test and Pearson correlation were also used.Result: “Power of specialty” by mean score of 60.89 was the most effective factor on employee's cooperation. Next ranks were respectively legal, being reference, obligation and reward power. Employee's cooperation with a mean score of 62.99 was higher than the average. But in test of hypothesis, these differences did not show any significant.Conclusion: In this study the effect of power sources on employee’s cooperation was related to expertise resources, law, authority, obligation and reward, respectively. Despite dramatic differences in the results of descriptive research, there were no significant differences between employee's cooperation and manager's power sources.Key words: Health; Hospitals, Public; Legal Power; Hospital Administration.
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