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Management and Organization of Healthcare Institutions

This HERA cluster studies how management and organizational factors impact healthcare at the organizational, team, and individual levels using diverse data sources.

This HERA cluster works on research questions at the intersection of healthcare with management and organization. In doing so, we analyze:

(1) organizational-level questions, such as strategic choices related to mergers and acquisitions; 

(2) team-level questions, for instance related to the management of interdisciplinary teams within healthcare organizations, and 

(3) individual-level questions, such as predictors of job satisfaction and quit intention of clinicians. We make use of a broad range of data, such as survey data, administrative data, experiment data, and qualitative data.  

Overview of research projects

  • The role of management quality for doctors' quit intention in the NHS

    Within the English National Health Service (NHS), we study how supervisors' HRM practices (i.e. their management quality) affect their subordinates' intention to leave their hospital. We find that management quality relates to reduced quit intention beyond the effect of job characteristics and non-work related aspects such as care responsibilities.

    Collaborators: Agnes Baker, Amanda Goodall, Victoria Serra-Sastre.

  • Enabling leaders of multispecialty teams via cross-training

    We evaluate the effectiveness of a leadership training for medical doctors and show that it enhances skills of leaders engaged in multispecialty teamwork. Read more here.

    Collaborators: Agnes Baker, Francesco Maisano, Carlos A. Masters.

  • Do Expert Clinicians Make the Best Managers? Evidence from Hospitals in Denmark, Australia and Switzerland

    We examine the relationship between clinical expertise of leaders and subordinate doctors' job satisfaction in three countries and find a consistently positive relationship. Medical doctors are more satisfied with their job if they are lead by a distinguished clinician. Read more here.

    Collaborators: Agnes Baker, Amanda Goodall.

  • Motivating doctors into leadership and management: A cross-sectional survey

    We analyze what medical doctors in Denmark need so that they will accept a leadership position and find that the main incentives are the possibility to make a difference and receiving sufficient training for the role. Read more here.

    Collaborators: Agnes Baker, Mickael Bech, Jaason Geerts, Susanne Maigaard Axelsen, Henrik Ullum, Marie P Krabbe, Amanda Goodall.

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