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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798005803321

Autore

Roberts Sharon

Titolo

Improving health care management at the top : how balanced boardrooms can lead to organizational success / / Sharon Roberts, Milan Frankl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York (222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017) : , : Business Expert Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-63157-261-X

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (54 pages)

Collana

Health care management collection, , 2333-861X

Disciplina

362.1068

Soggetti

Health services administration

Boards of directors

Health boards

Diversity in the workplace

Health Services Administration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-51) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Gender diversity may be the answer to performance -- 2. Background, what theory reveals -- 3. The Canadian Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), business case -- 4. Health care executive management composition, the good, the bad, and the ugly -- 5. Hospital performance, a taboo to overcome -- 6. Dominance, by whom? -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book we explore the influence of gender on organizational performance in the health care sector. The authors argue that gender diversity of boards improves health care organizational performance when compared to homogeneous boards. The theoretical framework used was developed from conducting literature reviews of scholarly academic journal articles on gender, boards, and organizational performance as well as performing an in-depth study of the performance of health care organizations in Ontario, Canada. Research results suggest that effective boards and their composition were dependent on their female-to-male ratio to realize administrative efficiencies. Publicly funded, nonprofit, 126 acute care hospitals



located in Ontario, Canada, were chosen as the health care sector for this research. Limitations of this study are in the complexity of the health care industry, competing internal and external priorities, and funding constraints. Nevertheless, this book is original work and relevant for use by boards to examine the complementary mix of gender as a predictor of organizational performance.