Some Aspects of the Health-Care Institutions Management in Slovenia

• Authors: Jaka Vadnjal , Jurij Bernik , Andrej Baričič
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Not much has research has so far been done into the peculiarities of health-care organization management. The motivation was to explore the possible perspectives of the health-organization management system in comparison to other business forms. The hypotheses were tested through a questionnaire that was mailed to managers in health-care institutions. It has been confirmed to a certain degree that managers with a medical training background have different managerial scopes, oriented more to their own profession, including economics of their organization, need for enhanced knowledge and, their managerial style. The implications of the study are at two levels. The future design of training programs for top and middle management institutions will be influenced by the results and findings. At the other level, the implications are expected to arouse interest in the field of multidisciplinary education course design as well as some providing possible background for development of business consulting services in the field.

Keywords

EN

Health-care; management; leadership; education and training; consulting

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 42
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 95-102

Dates

published

2009-05-01

online

2009-06-10

Contributors

author

Jaka Vadnjal

• GEA College of Entrepreneurship, Kidričevo nabrežje 2, 6320 Piran, Slovenia

author

Jurij Bernik

• GEA College of Entrepreneurship, Kidričevo nabrežje 2, 6320 Piran, Slovenia

author

Andrej Baričič

• GEA College of Entrepreneurship, Kidričevo nabrežje 2, 6320 Piran, Slovenia

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-009-0007-0