Physicians' professional autonomy and their organizational identification with their hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Managing medical professionals is challenging because professionals tend to adhere to a set of professional norms and enjoy autonomy from supervision. The aim of this paper is to study the interplay of physicians' professional identity, their organizational identity, and the role of professional autonomy in these processes of social identification.

Methods

We test hypotheses generated according to social identity theory using a survey of physicians working in public hospitals in Italy in 2013.

Results

Higher degrees of organizational and economic professional autonomy are correlated with higher organizational identification. Identification with the profession is positively correlated with identification with the organization.

Conclusions

Although the

SUBMITTER: Salvatore D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6186093 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature