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Korean Academy of Health Policy and Management (한국보건행정학회)
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The Effect of Ethical Management and Positive Psychological Capital on Organizational Effectiveness in Hospitals

의료조직의 윤리경영과 긍정심리자본이 조직유효성에 미치는 영향

  • 이근환 (고려대학교 의료원) ;
  • 유지영 (중앙치매센터 연구개발팀) ;
  • 장영철 (경희대학교 경영대학 경영학부) ;
  • 신영전 (한양대학교 의과대학 예방의학교실)
  • Received : 2016.03.31
  • Accepted : 2016.09.12
  • Published : 2016.09.30
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Abstract

Background: In this study, state-owned medical institutes, industrial accident hospitals, veteran hospitals, and private medical clinics including 16 university medical institutes in the Seoul metropolitan area were selected to examine the causality of ethical management, positive psychological capital, and organizational effectiveness. Methods: The study analyzed 1,056 valid questionnaires to which a total of 1,325 nurses, medical technicians, doctors, and administrative staff in 34 healthcare organizations answered over two months from June to August 2015. The study also utilized a 'structural equation model,' and a 'hierarchical linear model' to conduct the analysis. Results: It was first found that ethical leadership, ethical management systems, and organizational ethics values, which are the three factors of ethical management, had significant influence on organizational commitment, and behavior. These are the three factors of employee organizational effectiveness. Second, ethical management, ethical leadership, ethical management systems, and organizational ethics values had significant influence on positive psychological capital. Third, positive psychological capital had significant influence on organizational commitment, turnover intention, and organizational citizenship behavior. Positive psychological capital presented an indirect effect on the relationship between the ethical management and organizational effectiveness of employees. The effect of positive psychological capital consisting of self-efficacy, hope, resilience, and optimism was confirmed in the healthcare organizations. Fourth, in relations among ethical management variables, ethical leadership showed a significant impact on ethical management systems, which had significant impacts on organizational ethics values, which had significant impacts on ethical leadership.

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