The factors related strategic leader actions in Turkish public healthcare management and perceived achievement

Abstract

Abstract

Structural changes taking place all over the world in the last 40 years in the health sector has brought about rapid development of the health sector in our country. One of the change in health system in Turkey is the establishment of Institution of Turkish Public Hospitals and General Secretariat with the legal regulation numbered 663. With the new law employment of managers, work in General Secretaries and hospitals, is made by performance-based model. These developments in the health system cause that the features of strategic leadership of managers should be reconsidered. Similarly, the impact of structural change is expected to be on the institutional environment. Performance-based employment of managers will be converted into the more complex environment of stable environmental conditions of the public health sector. Therefore, it is considered that managers, work in the health sector, use more the features of strategic leadership. In this study, the goal is that to determine the using level of the features of strategic leadership of managers work in Institution of Turkish Public Hospitals and provincial hospitals, to identify the personal and environmental factors affecting these features and to learn perception of success. 105 managers have been participated in the study. Strategic Leadership Survey used for collecting data. As a result, it is determined that managers use ethical leadership more often all aspects of strategic leadership. % 43 of the participants assessed working environment as stagnant and % 91.43 of the participants assessed themselves as very successful. Moreover, there is a significant relationship between the features of strategic leadership of managers and personal features of them.

Keywords: Strategic leadership, strategic management, perception of success, public health sector.