Doctors’ Opinions on the Pro-innovation Attributes of Organisational Culture – The Results of Empirical Research

• Authors: Joanna A. Jończyk

Title variants

PL

Atrybuty proinnowacyjnej kultury organizacyjnej w opinii lekarzy – wyniki badań empirycznych

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article attempts to identify, in the opinion of medical personnel, the variables of pro-innovation culture and to determine the relationships between those variables and the level of innovation in hospitals. To this end, a questionnaire study was conducted among 51 physicians. The results suggest that, in the opinion of doctors, innovation is significantly associated with almost all the selected variables, namely: strategic orientation for development, access to resources and capital for the implementation of innovations, integration of personnel around strategic objectives, mechanisms to motivate and reward staff for innovation, effective communication and collaboration based on trust relationships, standardisation of rules and procedures, openness to change and innovation, except tolerance of minor errors in learning processes.

PL

Celem artykułu jest próba rozpoznania zmiennych charakteryzujących proinnowacyjną kulturę organizacyjną w opinii personelu lekarskiego poprzez określenie związków pomiędzy zmiennymi wzorca określonego na podstawie literatury a poziomem innowacyjności danych szpitali. W związku z realizacją postawionego celu przeprowadzono badania kwestionariuszowe wśród 51 lekarzy. Wyniki sugerują, że w opinii lekarzy zmienna innowacyjności jest w istotnym stopniu powiązana prawie ze wszystkimi wyróżnionymi zmiennymi, takimi jak: strategiczne zorientowanie na rozwój, dostęp do zasobów i kapitału na wdrażanie innowacji, zintegrowanie personelu wokół celów strategicznych, mechanizmy motywowania i nagradzania personelu za innowacyjność, skuteczna komunikacja i współpraca oparte na relacjach zaufania, standaryzacja norm i zasad postępowania, otwartość na zmiany i innowacje, z wyjątkiem tolerancji na drobne błędy w procesach uczenia się.

Keywords

EN

pro-innovation organisational culture; doctors; public hospitals; Poland

PL

proinnowacyjna kultura organizacyjna; lekarze; publiczne szpitale; Polska

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Krakowie
• Journal: Argumenta Oeconomica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 81-99

Contributors

author

Joanna A. Jończyk

• Politechnika Białostocka, Katedra Organizacji i Zarządzania, Krupniki 31A, 15-623 Białystok, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15678/AOC.2014.1106