Evaluating health care work settings: A holistic conceptual framework
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Psychology & Health
- Vol. 1 (2), 97-122
- https://doi.org/10.1080/08870448708400318
Abstract
After offering a systems perspective that considers a diversity of job-related and personal factors, we discuss the determinants and impacts of health care work climates and how staff morale and performance can influence the treatment milieu and quality of patient care. We also describe the physical features, organizational structure and policies, and suprapersonal and task factors that help to shape health care work climates. We then review research on the connections between work climate and staff morale and performance, the interplay of work climate factors, and the role of personal factors in these relationships. Finally, we orovide some ideas about how to improve health care work settings and focus on some promising new research directions.Keywords
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