Title

Aligning Internal Organizational Factors With A Service Excellence Mission: An Exploratory Investigation In Health Care

Keywords

Health care; Organizational alignment; Service excellence; Service mission

Abstract

In today's competitive health care environment, service excellence is rapidly becoming a major differentiating advantage between health care providers. Too often, senior executives talk about their commitment to a mission statement that extols the virtues of providing world class service to their patients only to undermine those statements with what they do, write, and say. This article presents an exploratory investigation into a new application of an internal mission alignment instrument that seeks to assess the extent to which an organization's internal processes are aligned with its service mission. This instrument was sent to 250 randomly selected employees from all clinical departments of a large southeastern hospital to explore the underlying alignment factors. A factor analysis of the data revealed eight factors that predicted beneficial employee outcomes such as organizational commitment and satisfaction with the job and organization. © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Publication Title

Health Care Management Review

Volume

31

Issue

4

Number of Pages

259-269

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1097/00004010-200610000-00001

Socpus ID

33750581703 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/33750581703

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