Organizational Culture and Individual Values in Greek Public Hospitals: A Competing Values Approach

This article tries to identify the culture dimensions that exist within public procurement in Greek public hospitals, based on employee characteristics. Design/methodology/approach: We have used exploratory factor analysis for the evaluation of multidimensional structure of organizational culture profile (OCP) scale. Then, we investigated the extent to which the OCP, with 54 items, that constitutes eight factors in the causative analysis of factors can be incorporated into the Quinn and Cameron theory of competitive values framework (CVF). In order to investigate this subject, we have developed a non-standard multidimensional scaling (MDS) that imposes the OCP on the solution space with the permutation test that evaluates the cohesion of engagements, which represents MDS and then we have extended our work to test our results by using structural equations modelling (AMOS). Findings: Internal consistency of all components was moderate to strong (a = 0.61 until 0.89). We realized that the OCP can be incorporated in the CVF, in a way the four quadrants which emerged have been formulated in four types of organizational culture. Research limitations/implications: The results have implied that the P–O fit can be assessed simply by the congruence of the person’s and the organization’s positions, measuring organizational culture in a way that is consistent with the CVF. Practical implications: We believe that our preliminary study can serve as an audit tool for m...
Source: Journal of Health Management - Category: Health Management Authors: Tags: Articles Source Type: research