Capacity of middle management in health-care organizations for working with people—the case of Slovenian hospitals

摘要

BackgroundEffective human resources management plays a vital role in the success of health-care sector reform. Leaders are selected for their clinical expertise and not their management skills, which is often the case at the middle-management level. The purpose of this study was to examine the situation in some fields that involve working with people in health-care organizations at middle-management level.