Organizational Agility, Competitive Capabilities, and the Performance of Health Care Organizations During the Covid-19 Pandemic

• Autorzy: Bulent Akkaya , Gozde Mert
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Purpose: Managers of healthcare organizations must be much more dynamic and agile to survive in a competitive environment. Administrators, managers, and leaders in healthcare organizations must meet both patients' and staff's needs, expectations, and requests at the maximum level in order to create organizational agility. What counts among these responsibilities is the use of operational competitive capabilities at the highest level and being organizationally agile? In this context, this study determines the relationship between the operational competitive capabilities of healthcare organizations and organizational agility and examines the mediating role of organizational agility between operational competitive capabilities and organizational performance in healthcare organizations in Turkey.

Methodology: The data was collected from the 220 managers of health organizations in Turkey through questionnaires, which were analyzed with the SPSS 26 and AMOS 26 programs.

Results: The findings revealed a positive relationship between operational competitive capabilities of managers and between organizational agility and organizational agility, which have a full mediat ing role between operational competitive capabilities and organizational performance in healthcare organizations.

Conclusion: Today's healthcare organizations' managers face such important problems and unexpected developments as adapting to a rapidly changing environment and struggles to avoid uncertainty. Therefore, the managers must use their operational competitive capabilities at the highest level and be organizationally agile to maximize their organizations' performance and survive in this highly competitive environment. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Health care; Management in healthcare; Management efficiency; Healthcare manager; COVID-19; Research results

PL

Opieka zdrowotna; Zarządzanie w opiece zdrowotnej; Sprawność zarządzania; Menedżer służby zdrowia; COVID-19; Wyniki badań

• Czasopismo: Central European Management Journal
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: 30
• Numer: nr 2
• Strony: 2--25

Twórcy

autor

Bulent Akkaya

• Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey

autor

Gozde Mert

• Nişantaşı University, Istanbul, Turkey

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DOI

10.7206/cemj.2658-0845.73