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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2015.13.10.459

Structure Model for TQM and Internal Customer Satisfaction of Medical Institutions  

Shim, Gyu-Beom (Dept. of Health Service Administration, Kyungnam College of Information & Technology)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.13, no.10, 2015 , pp. 459-470 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study was conducted to find out way that improves service quality for external customers by identifying the impact of Total Quality Management(TQM) on the internal customer satisfaction and then raising the personnel satisfaction measurement in medical institutions. To this end, we carried out a survey of 500 employees from five university hospitals in three metropolitan cities of Busan, Deagu and Ulsan and Gyeongsangnam-do province from February 2 to April 30, 2015, and utilized 476 cases for this study finally. First, in the result of analysis, the leadership of management hierarchy affects education and training and employee participation, but not human resource management nor quality of the work among quality management activities. Secondly, the culture of medical service organization has an effect on every variable of quality management activities. And finally, internal customer satisfaction is influenced by quality management activities, the leadership of management hierarchy and the culture of medical service organization.
Keywords
Medical Institution; Total Quality Management; Internal Customer; Customer Satisfaction; Structure Model;
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