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Abstract
The present study focuses on the role of hospital :nistrators, which is gaining increasing importance in of the rising demand for greater hospital efficiency ieffecti veness . Its specific objectives include studying ’iresponsibility and authority of hospital administrators ”:stated in formal documents, assessing their current ice in terms of what they actually do and how they time, and identifying major problems faced by The study sample consist of administrators of 12 general hospitals in Alexandria distributed as 5 Ministry of Health Hospitals, 4 Curative nization Hospi tals, 2 Health Insurance Organization Jpitals and one University Hospital. A questionnaire was to collect information about each hospital and its the personal characteristics of the nistrator, the content of the administrator’s work, as .l as the problems faced by administrators. The content the administrator’s work was assessed using a list of 96 which were grouped into 21 knowledge/skill areas to the following 9 activity groups: nizational design and process, personnel management, , ncial management, logistical management, management of , ice delivery system, legal work, developmental planning, ernal relations, and environmental surveillance. Each istrator was asked to indicate his nature of (whether he performs, participates, rvises, sets policy and delegates or has no role) ~ arding each acti vi ty, rate its importance and adequacy of e devoted to it, and give his personal estimate of time t on each activity group. In addition, continuous 3 administrators for one week was carried to percent of time spent on different activity and documents describing responsibility and administrators were collected from each main results of the study are as follow: Of the 12 administrators were physicians and one was a dentist, were part-time administrators who practiced medicine in or out of the hospital, and only 2 held a degree in hospital administration. , All hospitals had written job description and specification documents for the post of hospital administrator. Areas of responsibility and authority are stated in broad non specific terms at Ministry of Health and Curative Organization, and in more specific terms at Health Organization and the Insurance university Hospitals. of Number responsibi li ty / author i ty vary considerably, areas ranging between 8-21 and 5-2 2 respectively. Hospital administrators personally perform the greater proportion of activities included on the study list (36.5The present study focuses on the role of hospital :nistrators, which is gaining increasing importance in of the rising demand for greater hospital efficiency ieffecti veness . Its specific objectives include studying ’iresponsibility and authority of hospital administrators ”:stated in formal documents, assessing their current ice in terms of what they actually do and how they time, and identifying major problems faced by The study sample consist of administrators of 12 general hospitals in Alexandria distributed as 5 Ministry of Health Hospitals, 4 Curative nization Hospi tals, 2 Health Insurance Organization Jpitals and one University Hospital. A questionnaire was to collect information about each hospital and its the personal characteristics of the nistrator, the content of the administrator’s work, as .l as the problems faced by administrators. The content the administrator’s work was assessed using a list of 96 which were grouped into 21 knowledge/skill areas to the following 9 activity groups: nizational design and process, personnel management, , ncial management, logistical management, management of , ice delivery system, legal work, developmental planning, ernal relations, and environmental surveillance. Each istrator was asked to indicate his nature of (whether he performs, participates, rvises, sets policy and delegates or has no role) ~ arding each acti vi ty, rate its importance and adequacy of e devoted to it, and give his personal estimate of time t on each activity group. In addition, continuous 3 administrators for one week was carried to percent of time spent on different activity and documents describing responsibility and administrators were collected from each main results of the study are as follow: Of the 12 administrators were physicians and one was a dentist, were part-time administrators who practiced medicine in or out of the hospital, and only 2 held a degree in hospital administration. , All hospitals had written job description and specification documents for the post of hospital administrator. Areas of responsibility and authority are stated in broad non specific terms at Ministry of Health and Curative Organization, and in more specific terms at Health Organization and the Insurance university Hospitals. of Number responsibi li ty / author i ty vary considerably, areas ranging between 8-21 and 5-2 2 respectively. Hospital administrators personally perform the greater proportion of activities included on the study list (36.5The present study focuses on the role of hospital :nistrators, which is gaining increasing importance in of the rising demand for greater hospital efficiency ieffecti veness . Its specific objectives include studying ’iresponsibility and authority of hospital administrators ”:stated in formal documents, assessing their current ice in terms of what they actually do and how they time, and identifying major problems faced by The study sample consist of administrators of 12 general hospitals in Alexandria distributed as 5 Ministry of Health Hospitals, 4 Curative nization Hospi tals, 2 Health Insurance Organization Jpitals and one University Hospital. A questionnaire was to collect information about each hospital and its the personal characteristics of the nistrator, the content of the administrator’s work, as .l as the problems faced by administrators. The content the administrator’s work was assessed using a list of 96 which were grouped into 21 knowledge/skill areas to the following 9 activity groups: nizational design and process, personnel management, , ncial management, logistical management, management of , ice delivery system, legal work, developmental planning, ernal relations, and environmental surveillance. Each istrator was asked to indicate his nature of (whether he performs, participates, rvises, sets policy and delegates or has no role) ~ arding each acti vi ty, rate its importance and adequacy of e devoted to it, and give his personal estimate of time t on each activity group. In addition, continuous 3 administrators for one week was carried to percent of time spent on different activity and documents describing responsibility and administrators were collected from each main results of the study are as follow: Of the 12 administrators were physicians and one was a dentist, were part-time administrators who practiced medicine in or out of the hospital, and only 2 held a degree in hospital administration. , All hospitals had written job description and specification documents for the post of hospital administrator. Areas of responsibility and authority are stated in broad non specific terms at Ministry of Health and Curative Organization, and in more specific terms at Health Organization and the Insurance university Hospitals. of Number responsibi li ty / author i ty vary considerably, areas ranging between 8-21 and 5-2 2 respectively. Hospital administrators personally perform the greater proportion of activities included on the study list (36.5The present study focuses on the role of hospital :nistrators, which is gaining increasing importance in of the rising demand for greater hospital efficiency ieffecti veness . Its specific objectives include studying ’iresponsibility and authority of hospital administrators ”:stated in formal documents, assessing their current ice in terms of what they actually do and how they time, and identifying major problems faced by The study sample consist of administrators of 12 general hospitals in Alexandria distributed as 5 Ministry of Health Hospitals, 4 Curative nization Hospi tals, 2 Health Insurance Organization Jpitals and one University Hospital. A questionnaire was to collect information about each hospital and its the personal characteristics of the nistrator, the content of the administrator’s work, as .l as the problems faced by administrators. The content the administrator’s work was assessed using a list of 96 which were grouped into 21 knowledge/skill areas to the following 9 activity groups: nizational design and process, personnel management, , ncial management, logistical management, management of , ice delivery system, legal work, developmental planning, ernal relations, and environmental surveillance. Each istrator was asked to indicate his nature of (whether he performs, participates, rvises, sets policy and delegates or has no role) ~ arding each acti vi ty, rate its importance and adequacy of e devoted to it, and give his personal estimate of time t on each activity group. In addition, continuous 3 administrators for one week was carried to percent of time spent on different activity and documents describing responsibility and administrators were collected from each main results of the study are as follow: Of the 12 administrators were physicians and one was a dentist, were part-time administrators who practiced medicine in or out of the hospital, and only 2 held a degree in hospital administration. , All hospitals had written job description and specification documents for the post of hospital administrator. Areas of responsibility and authority are stated in broad non specific terms at Ministry of Health and Curative Organization, and in more specific terms at Health Organization and the Insurance university Hospitals. of Number responsibi li ty / author i ty vary considerably, areas ranging between 8-21 and 5-2 2 respectively. Hospital administrators personally perform the greater proportion of activities included on the study list (36.5The present study focuses on the role of hospital :nistrators, which is gaining increasing importance in of the rising demand for greater hospital efficiency ieffecti veness . Its specific objectives include studying ’iresponsibility and authority of hospital administrators ”:stated in formal documents, assessing their current ice in terms of what they actually do and how they time, and identifying major problems faced by The study sample consist of administrators of 12 general hospitals in Alexandria distributed as 5 Ministry of Health Hospitals, 4 Curative nization Hospi tals, 2 Health Insurance Organization Jpitals and one University Hospital. A questionnaire was to collect information about each hospital and its the personal characteristics of the nistrator, the content of the administrator’s work, as .l as the problems faced by administrators. The content the administrator’s work was assessed using a list of 96 which were grouped into 21 knowledge/skill areas to the following 9 activity groups: nizational design and process, personnel management, , ncial management, logistical management, management of , ice delivery system, legal work, developmental planning, ernal relations, and environmental surveillance. Each istrator was asked to indicate his nature of (whether he performs, participates, rvises, sets policy and delegates or has no role) ~ arding each acti vi ty, rate its importance and adequacy of e devoted to it, and give his personal estimate of time t on each activity group. In addition, continuous 3 administrators for one week was carried to percent of time spent on different activity and documents describing responsibility and administrators were collected from each main results of the study are as follow: Of the 12 administrators were physicians and one was a dentist, were part-time administrators who practiced medicine in or out of the hospital, and only 2 held a degree in hospital administration. , All hospitals had written job description and specification documents for the post of hospital administrator. Areas of responsibility and authority are stated in broad non specific terms at Ministry of Health and Curative Organization, and in more specific terms at Health Organization and the Insurance university Hospitals. of Number responsibi li ty / author i ty vary considerably, areas ranging between 8-21 and 5-2 2 respectively. Hospital administrators personally perform the greater proportion of activities included on the study list (36.5) , policy a supervise and delegate set or considerable proportion of activities (24.6 and 20.9 respectively), and have no role in 13.5 Administrators personally perform the greater proportion of acti vi ties of 6 out of 9 acti vi ty groups, which are in descending order: external relations (63. 3), personnel management (52.3), organizational design and process (41.7), environmenta 1 surveillance of (37.5), management service del i very system (31.7) and developmental planning Administrators and (30.2). policy set delegate the greater proportion of acti vi ties within the 2 activity legal af work (70.8) and groups logistical management (48. 3) and supervise the greater proportion of financial management activities (32.3). Administrators proportion regard the greater of activities as being of high importance {74.5} , the figure being highest for organizational design and process (89.7) , personnel and (85.1) management external relations (85.5) and lowest for developmental planning (58.1) and legal work (60.9). The main difference 4 organizational between the settings regarding of the hospital the role administrator was the considerable variation in the scope of work, the proportion of acti vi ties in which the administrators have no role being greatest as the Ministry of Health Hospitals (19.3)