The importance of management competencies of workers at the middle level of management in the hospitals

Důležitost manažerských kompetencí pracovníků na střední úrovni řízení v nemocnicích

Tomáš Kotrba
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Tomáš Kotrba: Ústav managementu, Mendelova zemědělská a lesnická univerzita v Brně, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Česká republika

Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2008, vol. 56, issue 6, 47-58

Abstract: This paper deals with management competencies of head and department nurses in Moravian hospitals. There are cited papers from Czech authors in the theoretical part which deal with health care, and the work of nurses. The research is based on a questionnaire sent to the hospitals in Znojmo, Třebíč and the Faculty hospital of St. Anna in Brno. Totally, the average response rate was 63,6 %, covering 886 nurses, 124 department nurses and 29 head nurses - 1039 in total. In terms of nurses' education the high school-leaving exam is most common; in average about 80 % of all nurses. And this is the same for head and department nurses, where there will be a requirement for a university degree in future especially for the position head nurse. This research shows that informal relationships predominate in hospitals. This is based on the democratic managerial style of department and head nurses. They predominantly obtained knowledge from human resource management in their working practice and previous occupation, (65,9 % respondents). Nurses and especially department nurses (66,7 %) don't want to manage people but don't want to reach higher positions (I think this is what you mean) and don't reach position of their subordinate. Department nurses but head nurses would like to participate in management and human resource management courses. According to the results of this questionnaire research (evaluation of nurses and self evaluation of department nurses and head nurses as well) management competencies are on good level in analysed hospitals. By testing dependence of chosen variables was found middle strong dependence between valuables: working position by department and head nurses and their preferences of communicative relationships. By department nurses which evaluated managerial style of head nurse and satisfaction with their occupation was found middle strong dependence as well.

Keywords: management; competencies; human resource management; education; management skills; qualification requirements; health care; questionnaires research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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