[Analysis of Mission Statements and Organizational Performance of Hospitals in South Korea]
Autor: | Eun-Kyung Kim, Se Young Kim, Eunpyo Lee |
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Rok vydání: | 2014 |
Předmět: |
Net profit
business.industry Medical quality Accounting Institute of medicine Organizational performance Organizational Culture Hospitals Organizational Policy Management Identification (information) Principal (commercial law) Republic of Korea Humans Organizational Objectives Business Descriptive research General Nursing |
Zdroj: | Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing. 45(4) |
ISSN: | 2093-758X |
Popis: | Purpose: The purpose of the study was to examine mission statements and their elements and to investigate correlations between mission statements and organizational performance. Methods: The current research was a descriptive study based on the examination of mission statements of 353 hospitals that posted mission statements on their webpage and 92 hospitals that made their income statements public. Results: The most common mission element was ‘identification of principal services’, which accounted for 92.6%. Mission statements of hospitals included the average of 4.82 mission elements out of 9, and the objective of medical quality improvement was 0.81 among 6 objectives of IOM (Institute of Medicine). Net profit of hospitals with mission statements that have above average number of mission elements were significantly higher (t=2.71, p =.008) than those of other hospitals. Net profit was significantly correlated with mission statements (r=.26, p |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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