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Social responsibility in hospitals of Isfahan city
A Barati Marani, Hs Sajadi, M Keivan Ara,
Volume 5, Issue 1 (6-2011)
Abstract

Background and Aim: Hospital's traditional charter that mostly emphasized productivity has been replaced by a charter that stresses social and environmental issues. On this basis, to achieve success, managers should regard both the inner and the outer environments of hospitals. This study aims at measuring hospitals' social responsibility.

Materials and Methods: The present descriptive-analytic study was carried out through a cross-sectional method in 2010. The study population consisted of hospital managers of the city of Isfahan (n=21). The data collection instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire. The instrument's content validity was determined by the experts' views and its reliability calculated through Cronbach's α was found to be 0.95. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS software (version 16) and the hypotheses were tested by t-test, ANOVA and Eta coefficients. The maximum mean score was 100.

Results: The mean score of hospitals' social responsibility was computed to be 68.6. The mean scores of leadership and inner processes, market place, community policies, environmental policies, and workplace policies were found to be 72.2, 70, 67.8, 67.4 and 66.2, respectively. There was no significant relationship between hospital's social responsibility and type of hospital's possession and activity (pvalue > 0.05).

Conclusion: The social responsibility of hospitals was assessed as moderate. To improve hospital's social responsibility, it is suggested that more attention be paid to workplace and environmental policie


Designing of Management Standard Procedures for Environmental Health Visits of Workplace
Khalil Ali Mohammadzadeh, Hamid Reza Mohseni,
Volume 10, Issue 1 (4-2016)
Abstract

Background and Aim: With regard to the effect of environmental health for employees, and with regard to the lack of a proper plan for identifying and controlling harmful occupational factors, it is necessary to create workplace health identification cards. The aim of this research is to design an identification card, which includes all the information about the workplace health of the employees of administrative section of a ministry, which could be updated in specific time intervals.

Materials and Methods: The present research was an applied, descriptive and  observational study which was conducted in 2015 in 100 work stations which were randomly selected in a governmental ministry through designing of two forms, including the information about workplace building, and the health information of the work station. The employees were also interviewed in order to collect data about each workstation regarding the machines for measuring the light, sound, temperature, ventilation, and rays. The opinions of four experts in the fields of environmental health, public health, occupational health, and civil health was used to analyze the data.

Results: A workplace health identification card was designed and determined through using the data obtained in this research. The following issues from this identification card, including standardizing the workplace of administrative employees, creating a data bank from the information, related to workplace health.

Conclusion: Workplace health identification card will be created and the standard management procedure will be designed for the purpose of health inspections of the workplace of administrative employees through the data extracted from this research.


Prioritization of Factors Affecting Workplace Spirituality in Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Mahdi Hajian Nosrat, Malikeh Beheshtifar,
Volume 12, Issue 4 (11-2018)
Abstract
Background and Aim: Workplace spirituality is an active process that strengthens people and motivates them to do purposeful activities. According to studies, several factors can promote workplace spirituality. Factors which are studied in this research include job motivation, psychological ownership, mental maturity, and moral behavior. The aim of this research is to prioritize the factors affecting workplace spirituality in Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in 2017.
Materials and Methods: This is a correlational descriptive study. The sample included 1230 staff members, of whom 294 were selected using Morgan table. To collect data, 5 questionnaires were used. And for data analysis, structural equation modeling and Amos and SPSS software were applied.
Results: The findings showed that psychological ownership (path coefficient 0.110), mental maturity (path coefficient 0.172), and moral behavior (path coefficient 0.871) had an effect on workplace spirituality, but job motivation (path coefficient - 0.090) had no effect on it. Also, moral behavior, mental maturity, and psychological ownership had the greatest effect on workplace spirituality, respectively; but job motivation had no effect on it.  
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, putting moral behavior as the basis, promoting mental maturity, and emphasizing psychological ownership in order of prioritizing effective factors caused workplace spirituality to increase among employees.

The Relationship of Transformational Leadership Style with Bullying at Work with Regard to the Mediating Role of Organizational Health among Employees of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
Ahmad Rastegar, Mohammad Hasan Seif, Zahra Firoozi Ardekani, Marzieh Tajvaran,
Volume 13, Issue 4 (11-2019)
Abstract
Background and Aim: Workplace bullying around the world is a work-injury factor, a mental health alarm and a global disaster. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and workplace bullying among employees at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences taking into account the mediating role of organizational health.
Materials and Methods: The research method was descriptive - survey. Research instruments chosen for the purpose of this study included The multifactor leadership questionnaire as the standard instrument for measuring transformational leadership behavior Bass & Avolio with(0.79) reliability, Graham Lowe’s standard questionnaire of organizational health questionnaire with(0.79) reliability and for organizational bullying a researcher-made questionnaire with(0/83) reliability was used. The statistical population of the study consisted of 265 university staff who were selected by simple sampling method. The research hypotheses were analyzed using SPSS and Lisrel 8.8 softwares and descriptive statistics and path analysis.
Results: The results showed that the components of transformational leadership affected workplace bullying indirectly and negatively through the mediation of organizational health. In addition, among the components of transformational leadership, idealized influence had the highest indirect effect(-0/19) on workplace bullying.  Among the components of organizational health, vibrant workplace had the highest level of direct effect(-0/27) on workplace bullying.
Conclusion: A good leadership style creates a healthy organization and reduces workplace bullying. Therefore, organizations need to develop organizational health and provide training, especially to managers of organizations.

The Analysis of Factors Influencing the Reduction of Abnormal Behaviors in the Workplace Based on Meta-Synthesis Technique
Shahpar Zakipour, Behzad Farrokh Sersht, Mohammad Javad Taghipourian, Hasan Ali Aghajani,
Volume 14, Issue 3 (7-2020)
Abstract
Background and Aim: In recent decades, increasing productivity and reducing losses by improving abnormal behaviors in the workplace have attracted the attention of organizational behavior experts, especially health researchers. The purpose of the present research is to study the factors influencing the reduction of abnormal behaviors in health workplace.
Materials and Methods: By using meta-synthesis technique, the findings of the related internal and external studies were systematically analyzed using Sandelowski and Barroso seven-step method. The identified codes were classified, analyzed and interpreted by MAXQDA10. Kappa method and SPSS were used to measure reliability and quality control. The calculated kappa coefficient was 0.893, which indicated a good consistency.
Results: From 435 articles investigated in this field, 46 articles were selected, based on which 68 factors were identified. These factors were classified into 3 main categories and 11 pivotal codes. The influential factors identified in this study include individual factors(psychological, demographic, religious, and contextual), group factors(communication, appropriate reward system, and deterrent behaviors) and organizational factors(organizational space, organizational measures, organizational emotions, and job position perception).
Conclusion: The results of this study show that individual factors are the most important ones affecting the reduction of abnormal behaviors. Therefore, the findings of this study emphasize psychological, demographic, religious, and contextual factors in planning and managers’ interventions to increase productivity in health workplace.

Perceived Safety Climate in Operating Rooms and Its Relationship with the Awareness of the Operating Room Staff about the Surgical Smoke Hazards: A Cross-Sectional Study
Omid Zadi Akhuleh, Abbas Dadashzadeh, Aysan Judi,
Volume 16, Issue 5 (12-2022)
Abstract
Background and Aim: Surgical smoke (SS), is caused by the use of high temperature devices such as electrocautery, laser and ultrasonic scalpel, which are used for cutting and coagulation of tissue during surgery, is considered as a serious threat to the health of operating room (OR) personnel. Various studies have identified the workplace safety climate as one of the main causes of the occurrence or prevention of occupational hazards. This study was conducted with the aim of Perceived Safety Climate (PSC) in ORs and its relationship with the awareness of the OR staff about the SS hazards.
Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from April 2021 to July 2022 in the ORs of 26 public hospitals affiliated to Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. In this research, 396 surgical and anesthesia technologists were included in the study by stratified random sampling. Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire, PSC questionnaire and awareness about the hazards of SS questionnaire and analyzed using SPSS software
Results: The knowledge of the OR staff regarding the hazards of surgical smoke was evaluated at a moderate level with a mean and standard deviation of 9.82±4.32 (range 0 to 21). The average knowledge score of surgical technologists (11.1±4.56) regarding the hazards of surgical smoke was significantly higher than the average score of anesthesia technologists (8.75±4.1)(P=0.02). The PSC in the OR was evaluated at moderate level with a mean and standard deviation of 62.15±11.1 (range 19 to 95). The results of linear regression analysis showed that the effect of PSC in increasing the awareness of OR staff about the hazards of SS was significant (P=0.001). By increasing one score to the total score of the PSC, the awareness score increases by 0.201.
Conclusion: The safety climate of the OR can predict the awareness of the hazards of SS among OR staff. It is recommended to adopt strategies such as educating personnel about the hazards of SS and how to prevent it, creating a suitable supportive environment for personnel, and providing suitable protective facilities to prevent OR staff from being exposed to SS.
 

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