Correlation Analysis Between The Educational Background And Strategic Decision-making Of Senior Managers In Public Hospitals

Objects In part of the public hospitals of Traditional Chinese medicine,we take the use of the management information systems of the top managers as the connection path,and study the relationship between the top managers' education background tendency and the hospital strategic policy.Methods By convenience sampling,we select some public hospitals of Traditional Chinese medicine whose range is second and above in scale in some provinces and cities such as Inner Mongolia?Beijing?Tianjin?Hebei and other province,we make the President,vice President,secretary and deputy secretary in these hospitals as our respondents.Through questionnaire survey,we collect the information about their style of using management information system,their preference to two kinds of information obtained from the system and their main purpose of using management information system under two different education background tendencies,and then continue to analysis the relationship between these different using types and the two different preference of the hospital strategic policies.Results The overall alpha value of the questionnaire which is made through group discussion and specialist consultation is 0.96,the questionnaire reliability is high,at the same time,the mean of the concentration ratio of the experts to the questionnaire is 85%,the expert's validity is high,the questionnaire is effective.In the investigation of 171 top managers in these public hospital,as for the relationship between education background tendency and the types of management information system using,the result shows that the partial correlation coefficient of the top managers' clinical education background tendency and all the types of the management information system using is low and the value of P is greater than 0.05,which indicates no sense;the partial correlation coefficient of the non-clinical education background tendency and the goal of resources allocation is 0.201,the value of P is 0.009,others' value of P is greater than 0.05,which also make no sense.In the partial correlation of the top manager's using types and the public hospital strategic policies,it shows that the partial correlation coefficient of the diagnostic using style and the qualitative strategic policy is 0.177,the value of P is 0.023;the partial correlation coefficient of the diagnostic using style and the cost-reduction strategic policy is 0.206,the value of P is 0.008,the partial correlation coefficient of the non-financial information preference and the qualitative strategic policy is 0.460,the value of P is less than 0.01;the partial correlation coefficient of the financial information preferences and the cost-reduction strategic policy is 0.193,whose value of P is 0.013,the partial correlation coefficient of the goal of resources allocation and the qualitative strategic policy is 0.511,while the partial correlation coefficient of the cost-reduction strategic policy is 0.627,the value of P of the two variables are both less than 0.01.As for the relationship among the types of management information system using,all the correlation coefficient is greater than 0.3,and the value of P is less than 0.01,which shows a sense.Therefore the maximum correlation coefficient among them is about the two information preference which is 0.898,while the minimum correlation coefficient is about the performance evaluation and the non-information preference which is 0.344.Conclusion This study turns out that there is a positive relationship between the top managers' non-clinical education background tendency and the goal of resource allocation in part of the public hospitals of Traditional Chinese medicine,but the partial correlation coefficient is low,at the mean time,the use of hospital management information systems is not biased for one by senior managers,the result indicates that all the using types of manager's preference have a positive correlation among each other,moreover,we know that the diagnostic using styles of the top managers is positively correlate to both of the two strategic policies,while the interactive styles of the top managers is uncorrelated,the non-financial information preferences is positively correlated to the strategic policies focused on quality,and is uncorrelated to the cost-reduction strategic policy,the financial information preferences is positively correlated to the cost-reduction strategic policy,and is uncorrelated to the qualitative strategic policy,the goal of resources allocation is related to both of the policies,while the performance evaluation is not.Therefore,we suggest that the hospital should attach great importance to the influence of the senior managers,emphasis the using of the hospital system by the top managers,pay more attention to the establishment and improvement of the management information system in public hospital,and provide more sufficient sources of information,improve the scientificity and validity of the policies.