When looking at the phenomenon of occupational burnout from a broad perspective, it appears as a serious problem for many environments. However, in the case of healthcare services, it should be considered an absolute priority, especially in the conditions of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. First of all, it is about the huge costs of both healthcare providers, patients and their families, as well as the entire healthcare system. The purpose of this publication is to provide basic information and systematize knowledge on burnout of medical workers in the initial period of COVID-19.
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Przyglądając się zjawisku wypalenia zawodowego z szerokiej perspektywy jawi się ono jako poważny problem dla wielu środowisk. Jednak w przypadku służb świadczących opiekę medyczną należy uznać go za absolutnie priorytetowy zwłaszcza w warunkach pandemii SARS-CoV-2. Przede wszystkim chodzi tu o ogromne koszty zarówno świadczeniodawców, pacjentów i ich rodzin a także całego systemu opieki zdrowotnej. Celem niniejszej publikacji jest przedstawienie podstawowych informacji i usystematyzowanie wiedzy dotyczącej wypalenia pracowników medycznych w okresie COVID-19.
In this publication the review of the literature points to the four main directions of research relating to innovation in their organizations. They are mainly of interest in the economic and technological aspect, treating hospitals as providers of information systems and comprehensive medical services. At the same time the importance of nontechnological innovation category was pointed out, such as organizational, social, management, and services and relational. It was emphasized that in today's world you cannot make the proper development of the health sector, one of the most modern in medical technology, but also should take into account other types of innovation. Such an approach seems to be best to continue the modernization of the current state of health care, improve the quality of life and increase the availability of new treatments to patients that respond to their needs.
Healthcare sector is considered as the knowledge-based sector and because of this innovation and creativity should be regarded as prerequisite for the survival and growth of the organizations which perform their activities within the sector. In this context development of pro-innovative culture within hospitals becomes crucial. In search for tools allowing to create the culture employees appraisal becomes an interesting tool to be further investigated. Due to the fact the main aim of the paper is to investigate the relationships between the employee appraisal system and innovation in the context of the organizational culture in the hospitals. Study was carried in eight public hospitals located in two voivodships in Poland. Not only qualitative but also quantitative data was analyzed in order to identify usefulness of employees appraisal as the tool of pro-innovative culture creation.
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