Aligning internal organizational factors with a service excellence mission: an exploratory investigation in health care.

Abstract:

:In today's competitive health care environment, service excellence is rapidly becoming a major differentiating advantage between health care providers. Too often, senior executives talk about their commitment to a mission statement that extols the virtues of providing world class service to their patients only to undermine those statements with what they do, write, and say. This article presents an exploratory investigation into a new application of an internal mission alignment instrument that seeks to assess the extent to which an organization's internal processes are aligned with its service mission. This instrument was sent to 250 randomly selected employees from all clinical departments of a large southeastern hospital to explore the underlying alignment factors. A factor analysis of the data revealed eight factors that predicted beneficial employee outcomes such as organizational commitment and satisfaction with the job and organization.

journal_name

Health Care Manage Rev

authors

Ford RC,Sivo SA,Fottler MD,Dickson D,Bradley K,Johnson L

doi

10.1097/00004010-200610000-00001

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-10-01 00:00:00

pages

259-69

issue

4

eissn

0361-6274

issn

1550-5030

pii

00004010-200610000-00001

journal_volume

31

pub_type

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