Military Medical Graduates’ Perceptions of Organizational Culture in Turkish Military Medical School

Organizational culture is the term used to describe the shared beliefs, perceptions, and expectations of individuals in organizations. In the healthcare environment, organizational culture has been associated with several elements of organizational experience that contribute to quality, such as nurs...

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Published in:Journal of medical systems 2008-08, Vol.32 (4), p.317-325
Main Authors: Ozer, Mustafa, Bakir, Bilal, Teke, Abdulkadir, Ucar, Muharrem, Bas, Turker, Atac, Adnan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Data Collection
Health Informatics
Health Sciences
Humans
Male
Medical schools
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Military Medicine - education
Organizational Culture
Original Paper
Perceptions
Quality of education
Schools, Medical
Statistics for Life Sciences
Students, Medical
Turkey
Veterans
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Summary:Organizational culture is the term used to describe the shared beliefs, perceptions, and expectations of individuals in organizations. In the healthcare environment, organizational culture has been associated with several elements of organizational experience that contribute to quality, such as nursing care, job satisfaction, and patient safety. A range of tools have been designed to measure organizational culture and applied in industrial, educational, and health care settings. This study has been conducted to investigate the perceptions of military medical graduates on organizational culture at Gülhane Military Medical School. A measurement of organizational culture, which was developed by the researchers from Akdeniz University, was applied to all military medical graduates in 2004. This was a Likert type scale that included 31 items. Designers of the measurement grouped all these items into five main dimensions in their previous study. The items were scored on a five-point scale anchored by 1: strongly agree and 5: strongly disagree. Study participants included all military physicians who were in clerkship training period at Gulhane Military Medical Academy in 2004. A total of 106 graduates were accepted to response the questionnaire. The mean age of participants was 25.2 ± 1.1. At the time of study only 8 (7.5%) graduates were married. The study results have showed that the measurement tool with 31 items had a sufficient reliability with a Cronbach's alpha value of 0.91. Factor analysis has resulted a final measurement tool of 24 items with five factors. Total score and the scores of five subdimensions have been estimated and compared between groups based on living city and marital status. The study has shown the dimension of symbol received positive perceptions while the dimension of organizational structure and efficiency received the most negative perceptions. GMMS has a unique organizational culture with its weak and strong aspects. Conducting this kind of studies contribute to improve organizational culture in order to increase educational and research capability.
ISSN:0148-5598
1573-689X
DOI:10.1007/s10916-008-9136-x