Analysis of Management Behavior Assessments and Affect on Productivity

摘要

The basis of this study originates from the identification of management behavioral attributes within executive skill competencies necessary in the successful management of military treatment facilities (Virtual Military Health Institute, 2003). The need exists for constructing a reliable behavior assessment instrument that captures data operationalized into correlational relationships between hospital management and employee beliefs of management behavioral attributes. The objectives of this research are to determine if significant correlations exist between employee perceptions of management behavior in comparison to management's perception of own behavior, to explore the predictibility of hospital productivity based on the assessment of such behaviors, and to design a reliable behavioral assessment instrument. The research design combines cross-sectional, formal, exploratory, and correlative ex post facto design elements. Data on respondent demographics and beliefs of management behavioral attributes was collected by administering two survey instruments: one to a population of military officers serving in management positions (N=49), and the second to a stratified random sampling of hospital employees (n=502). Statistical analysis confirms that significant relationships exist between hospital management self-assessment and employee attitudes and beliefs of management behavioral attributes. The method of study posits the basis for a more precisely controlled longitudinal study across multiple medical activities purporting the prediction of causal relationships between management and employee assessments of behavioral attributes.