ERIC Number: EJ829757
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Apr
Pages: 11
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ISSN: ISSN-0018-1560
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Organizational Culture, Values, and Routines in Iranian Medical Schools
Bikmoradi, Ali; Brommels, Mats; Shoghli, Alireza; Zavareh, Davoud Khorasani; Masiello, Italo
Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, v57 n4 p417-427 Apr 2009
In Iran, restructuring of medical education and the health care delivery system in 1985 resulted in a rapid shift from elite to mass education, ultimately leading to an increase in the number of medical schools, faculties, and programs and as well as some complications. This study aimed to investigate views on academic culture, values, and routines held by faculty members. A nation-wide survey conducted in six public medical schools in Iran. The research findings show weak organizational culture and values, together with routine behaviors sensed as a negative and low satisfaction with academic leadership. The research evidence suggests bureaucracy, politicization, conservativeness, and centralization as common features of medical schools in Iran and also suggests suitable supervisory skills to tackle the tension between governmental management and academic leadership with cultural changes, the creation of new values, and adoption more efficient routines.
Descriptors: Medical Education, Delivery Systems, Organizational Culture, Medical Schools, Supervisory Training, Foreign Countries, Leadership, Mass Instruction, Medical School Faculty, Educational Change, Surveys, Political Attitudes, Values, Teacher Attitudes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iran
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