A Study Of The Effect Of Chief's Leadership Behaviors Of Section Offices And Organizational Climate On Job Involvement In The Military Hospitals

The military hospital in the peaceful time is different from those in the warm time. Besides being responsible for the medical care of the army, cooperating the military manoeuvres and attending hygiene support and It's present tasks, its present tasks also include some special ones such as purchasing medical equipments, being part of natural disaster rescue, joining the international peace-keeping force, supporting the neighbor country's medical team and so on. At the same time, it needs to follow the country's medical policy to offer medical services to the local people. As a result, with the double tasks of war preparedness and medical service, the leadership in the military hospital is much more complex than that of local hospitals. Besides, the military hospital faces pressures of being dissolved or simplified, which affects the psychology of the working staff, whose mind is easy to waver under such circumstance. Under the competition of the market economy, military hospitals must try to become competitive in the managing efficiency and medical care. To accomplish this, the job involvement of the staff plays a very important role. How to strengthen the leadership and motivate the staff to raise the work efficiency? How to realize the organizational goals with high efficiency by improving the leadership models? What's the effect of the leadership behavior on organizational climate? What's the effect of leadership behavior and organizational climate on the job involvement of the staff? Are there any relationships between them? All of these are concerns of the thesis, which makes studies on the job involvement of the staff in military hospitals with the hope of offering some help to the management of the section office, and the increasing of work efficiency.The paper investigates the working staff in three military central hospitals, including 60 clinicians, 170 nurses, 50 medical technicians, and 70 administrators. All in all, 350 questionnaires are put out and 328 are taken back. The analysis are made from the following respects: the effect of the dean's leadership behavior on the organizational climate, the effect of the dean's leadership behavior on the job involvement of the staff, the effect of the organizational climate on the job involvement of the staff, etc.First of all, the foreword lists the background, purpose and significance of the research topic, introduces the general hypothesis, studying methods and the structure. Besides, it summarizes the theories of leadership behavior, organizational climate and job involvement, reviewing the concerning definitions and theoretical branches. Based on this, the analyzing framework of the study is set.Then, first, the paper analyzes the relationships between the different variables of the staff, the leadership behavior, the organizational climate and the job involvement. The result shows that the sex difference of the staff bears no statistical meaning for the dean's leadership behavior, the feeling of the organizational climate of the office and the degrees of the job involvement; while the marriage difference gets some statistical meaning for the dean's leadership behavior, but bears none for the feeling of the organizational climate of the office and the degrees of the job involvement; the official rank bears no statistical meaning for the dean's leadership behavior, but some for the feeling of the organizational climate of the office and the degrees of the job involvement; the educational backgrounds and positional difference have statistical meaning for the dean's leadership behavior, the feeling of the organizational climate of the office and the degrees of the job involvement. Second, the paper makes correlation analysis on various dimensions of the dean's leadership behavior, the organizational climate of the office and the job involvement. The result shows that the dimensions of the dean's leadership behavior and the dimensions of organizational climate are positively correlated; the dimensions of the dean's leadership behavior and the dimensions of the job involvement of the staff are positively correlated; the dimensions of organizational climate and the dimensions of the job involvement of the staff are positively correlated. Third, the paper makes effect analysis on the various dimensions of the dean's leadership behavior, the organizational climate of the office and the job involvement. The result shows that the dimensions of the dean's leadership behavior have obvious effect on the dimensions of the organizational climate of the office and the job involvement; the dimensions of the organizational climate of the office have obvious influence on the dimensions of the job involvement.Finally, some practical advice is offered to the deans of the section offices in military central hospitals to improve their leadership behavior and the organizational climate and increase the job involvement of the staff. The last part of the thesis is the conclusion in which some suggestions are offered to the succeeding studies.