Physicians' professional autonomy and their organizational identification with their hospital

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F18%3A10380936" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/18:10380936 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3582-z" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3582-z</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3582-z" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12913-018-3582-z</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Physicians' professional autonomy and their organizational identification with their hospital

Original language description

Managing medical professionals is challenging because professionals tend to adhere to a set of professional norms and enjoy autonomy from supervision. The aim of this paper is to study the interplay of physicians&apos; professional identity, their organizational identity, and the role of professional autonomy in these processes of social identification. Methods: We test hypotheses generated according to social identity theory using a survey of physicians working in public hospitals in Italy in 2013. Results: Higher degrees of organizational and economic professional autonomy are correlated with higher organizational identification. Identification with the profession is positively correlated with identification with the organization. Conclusions: Although the generalizability of our results is limited, this study suggests that organizations should support the organizational and economic autonomy of their physicians to project an organizational identity that preserves the continuity of a doctor&apos;s self-concept and that is evaluated as positive by doctors. As a result, organizations will be able to foster organizational identification, which is potentially capable of inducing pro-social organizational behavior. (C) 2018 The Author(s).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

BMC Health Services Research

ISSN

1472-6963

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

October

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000448369200003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85054860787