Open AccessOrganizational climate: Comparing private and public hospitals within professional roles
Author(s) -
Diana Carolina Rojas,
Chiara Seghieri,
Sabiuti
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
suma de negocios
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2215-910X
pISSN - 2027-5692
DOI - 10.1016/s2215-910x(14)70015-1
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , psychology , organisation climate , internal consistency , humanities , work environment , political science , social psychology , philosophy , psychometrics , clinical psychology
This study compares the organizational climate differences within professional roles in private and public hospitals. We focused on how physicians, administrative, healthcare and non-healthcare staff either in the public or in the private perceived their work environment and each organizational climate dimension. Data came from organizational-climate questionnaires administered in 2010 and 2012 to 19616 and 1276 health employees in public and private hospitals in the Tuscany Region respectively. We applied exploratory factoranalysis to verify the validity and internal consistency between items in the questionnaire and t-test, one-way analysis of variance to compare mean perceptions regarding to the dimensions across different groups of respondents. We measured four dimensions: “training opportunities”, “managerial tools”, “organization” and “management & leadership style” and overall job satisfaction. Hospital status in the professional roles was found significant in the staff's perceptions (p≤0.05)