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Journal of Public Policy and Governance
Vol. 2, No. 1, 2015, 40-47
Individual and Social Factors Affecting Upgrade of Clinical Staff
Productivity in a Subspecialty State Hospital
Mostafa Jafari
1
, Zainab Darrami Moghaddam
2
Abstract
Research objective: Which group of factors upgrades productivity level of clinical specialized staff in
hygienic and remedial centers? Which of these factors influence the level of productivity more? This study
answers to the two questions above. Human factors influencing the promotion of the productivity of human
resources in hospitals are highly and classifiable. In this study, 13 factors in the four categories have been
defined.
Methodology: This study is based on objective, descriptive-explanatory, based on result, applied, based on
time, and sectional, based on survey methodology. The appliance of data capture had made a questionnaire
containing 51 questions about Likert. The society of study target contained 220 specialists, general
practitioners, midwives, nurses, technicians of operating theatre, anesthetist and practical nurses who were
employed in hospitals which were considered. Data collected by statistical modeling and structural equation
techniques and LISREL software was analyzed.
Results and Findings: The results of data analysis shows that individual factors with 0.68 have the highest
impact on promotion of productivity level, and then the social factors impact on productivity. Therefore, it is
suggested in the compilation of development programs of hospital aimed at upgrading the productivity level
design, individual factors are prioritized.
Keywords: Productivity of clinical staff, individual factors, social factors.
1. Introduction
Manpower of each organization is the most primary strategic resource and excellence marker of one
organization over the others. In order to compete in today’s world is merely adequate products quality and
new technology, and human resources are expressed as stable competitive advantage. The concept of human
resources attests to this remark that staffs are resources of employer and they can add value to their
organization. Qualified human resources for the organizations are valuable and rare, and they can’t be easily
copied, imitated and replace and caused to gaining stable competitive advantage. (Nou and colleagues, 4,
2009). In today’s competitive world, productivity, as a philosophy and standpoint based on improving
strategy, provides the most primary objective of each organization, and it can include the activities of all
society sections such as a concatenation (Taheri,1999). As management mission and primary objective of
managers of each organization are effective and best use of different resources and facilities such as
workforce, asset, materials, energy and information (Vaziri and colleagues, 100, 2010). Features of the
hygiene and remedy life section health of many people, is located in the hands of hygiene and remedy
(health) systems. The safe children of a healthy baby to respectfully care of an elderly person, hygiene and
remedy section has vital and continued responsibility for people in the all periods of their lives. The
existence of this section is essential for healthy growth of people, families and societies everywhere
(Varmaqani, 1, 1390). The discussions concluded that manpower productivity is the main factor shaping the
1
Assistant professor, Departement of management, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran
2
Slamic Azad University, Zanjan branch, Iran