ارزيابي عملكرد رهبري در بيمارستان هاي خرم آباد براساس سيستم خود سنجي: 1386

Assessment of leadership performance based on self-assessment system (Khorramabad hospitals 2006-2007)

Introduction The evidences suggests that Iranian hospital managers do not apply a standard device for assessing leadership performance, and identifying strong and weak points to devise the executive plans required to improve leadership. The present study was aimed to promote the application of self-assessment system through measuring leadership performance at the Khorramabad hospitals, to increase the use leadership potentials as the most important factor to improving the quality of hospital services. Methods: fhe present study is a descriptive, cross-sectional research. The study population including of khorramabad hospitals, as well as middle and senior managers. Fhe wolkshop method and the Simply Better Standard Questionnaire, having the needed reliability and validity, was used for collecting data.. Among teaching, private, and social security hospitals, urto ofeach ^noup was included in the research thorough simple sampling method. The data are presented by descriptive statistics. Results: The mean scores of studied hospitals: teaching, social security and private in "organizational leadership," dimension were 26%, 32% and 21% respectively; in " citizenship and public responsibility," dimensions were 29%, 39% and 18% respectively,and in "creativity, risk, and innovation" dimension were 26%, 32%, and 22% respectively. Conclusion: According to our findings, the teaching hospital and the privale hospital have both started permanent improvements in a few number of their leadership dimensions. The social security hospital, however, has showed a permanent improvement in a wide spectrum of its leadership dimension . Since leadership proves to be a driving force (brother factors to maintain qmihty. it is suggested that hospitals take Actions to document their leadership processes, compile the indices to measure their achievements, constantly make the indices permanent, and identity the strong and weakness points, and groutuis for jmprm ortitml md conduct improvement plans.