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Pomiar kultury organizacyjnej w organizacjach ochrony zdrowia
The measurement of organizational culture in healthcare organizations

Author(s): Agata Szeptuch
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management
Published by: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie, Fundacja Promocji i Akredytacji Kierunków Ekonomicznych
Keywords: organizational culture; healthcare organizations; measurement of organizational culture

Summary/Abstract: Healthcare organizations play an important role in every society. Those organizations are run connecting two conflicted fields: economics and ethics, facing a problem of what is more important: economic accounts or human's life. This perspective makes organizational culture in healthcare institutions seem much more important. Ethical codex, values system, norms of behavior and, of course, management methods - all those factors shape doctor-patient relationships and, as a result, influence human health and life. Thus, creating the organizational culture maximizing the medical staff effectiveness of lifesaving, is of interest to every society. In this paper, the author tried to answer two essential questions - what kind of organizational culture would be the most adequate for healthcare organizations and how to diagnose the organizational culture - measure something immeasurable.

  • Issue Year: 65/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 60-67
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Polish