Organizational culture and social responsibility in health care: problems of defining and methods of study

Authors

  • Marina Y. Surmach Grodno State Medical University, 80 M. Horkaha Street, Hrodna 230009, Belarus
  • Svetlana L. Boyko Grodno State Medical University, 80 M. Horkaha Street, Hrodna 230009, Belarus

Keywords:

social responsibility, organizational culture, OCAI, health care system, Belarus
Supporting Agencies
Research is supported by the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research (grant No. Г19-061).

Abstract

The reasons for the dynamics of the social institute of medicine and the current model of health care system as its organization in modern conditions in the Republic of Belarus are analyzed in the article. The concepts of «organizational culture» and «social responsibility» in relation to the health care system are clarified. The methods of study of organizational culture are stated. A tool for assessing of organizational culture according to the OCAI methodology, adapted to the use in the health care system of Belarus, which allows to diagnose organizational culture in organizations (institutions) of health care, and suitable for use in comparative analysis with the data obtained by measurements through the original version of OCAI in other countries, is proposed.

Author Biographies

  • Marina Y. Surmach, Grodno State Medical University, 80 M. Horkaha Street, Hrodna 230009, Belarus

    doctor of science (medicine), docent; head of the department of public health and public health service

  • Svetlana L. Boyko, Grodno State Medical University, 80 M. Horkaha Street, Hrodna 230009, Belarus

    PhD (medicine), docent; head of the department of psychology and pedagogy

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2019-10-02

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No. 3 (2019): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

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From the Working Table of a Sociologist

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Surmach, M.Y. and Boyko, S.L. 2019. Organizational culture and social responsibility in health care: problems of defining and methods of study. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 3 (Oct. 2019), 84–95.