Management Practices and Performance of Public hospitals in Uganda

John Bosco Kakooza, Immaculate Tusiime, Hojops Odoch and Vincent Bagire
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Vincent Bagire: Department of Business Administration, Makerere University Business School

International Journal of Management Science and Business Administration, 2015, vol. 1, issue 7, 22-29

Abstract: The Daily Monitor publications ran serialized articles showing the awful state of government hospitals across the country. While the Ministry of Health insists that the problem is not as bad as it is depicted, the level of service delivery in public hospitals has come under serious public scrutiny espousing the cause for concern about policy, practice and research. There should be glaring gaps in management practices as a possible explanation. In this study, we investigated impact of management decision making, structure, processes, communication and management style on hospital performance. The study has emphasized good management as the determinant of better performance of hospitals in the Ugandan context. Findings of this study challenges policy makers to strengthen management processes in addition to mobilizing financial, human and capital resources for hospitals. The study extends the debate on application of management theory with practice in the health sector in the Ugandan context.

Keywords: Marketing Practices; Ministry of Health; Management PracticesHospital Resources; Ugandan Public Hospitals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.18775/ijmsba.1849-5664-5419.2014.17.1002

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