Conflicts Between Managerial and Medical Authorities and Their Impacts on Hospitals: Applied Study on Aljouf HospitalsAljouf Hospitals | Biomedgrid

Introduction: Health setting, in general, and hospitals in particular have complicated structure and culture and several types of employees, heads, departments accompanied by various layers of authorities including mainly medical authority and managerial authority. Study objectives: The main objectives of the present study were to explore the extent of organizational conflict between medical and managerial authorities in hospitals, and to identify the impact of roles of physicians as managers on the performance of medical staff in hospitals. Methods and subjects Study design and setting: Across-sectional design was conducted to collect data from participants (535) in health settings in Al-Jouf area of Saudi Arabia. A questionnaire was constructed for this study by researcher. Convenient sampling technique was used in this study. The analysis of data was carried out using SPSS version 21. Significance was considered at α≤0.05. Study findings: Slightly less than half of participants were management staff; health practitioners were slightly higher than one quarter of participants (about 26%), and the proportion of visitors was about 23%. About 75% of participants reported that health management specialists as the best for hospital management, while doctors were perceived to be the best for hospital management by less than a quarter of participants. Job nature was associated significantly with hospital management (p<0.05). Conclusion: The results showed that the majority of participants prefer specialists in health managements to lead hospitals, but physicians were not highly preferred to occupy the positions of hospital managers