HEALTH SERVICE MANAGER MANAGEMENT STYLES ACCORDING TO WERK PERSON MANAGEMENT STYLE INVENTORY

Abstract

The goals of managerial personnel in Health Service include: defining duties for personnel teams, initiating and co-ordinating team work, care for development and improvement of potential of workers. Requirements for modern companies do not allow for forcing specific behaviour among personnel but praise the ability to communicate by partnership and co-operation and quality of co-operation between the managing person and personnel. Assuming a thesis that there are preferred goals in management by Health Service managers, an attempt to identify them was made with the model of the Inventory of Person Management Styles WERK. The research was conducted on a group of 60 Health Service managers performing functions on various organizational levels. Respondents were managers hired in the public and non-public health care facilities from the Silesian and Podkarpackie Provinces. The analysis of results points that for the largest group of managers, the managing styles model WERK did not define both the dominating managing style as well as a style least typical for management. The fact indicates that managers in the health care facilities probably use the management style adequate to the situation or have the ability to switch between management styles using the characteristics typical for many management styles or use two or more management behaviors which they consider effective. Probability of existing specific management styles can be assumed as well, which are used by the Health Service managers and which have not been defined by the management styles model WERK.