IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

IIARD International Journal of Economics and Business Management (IJEBM )

E-ISSN 2489-0065
P-ISSN 2695-186X
VOL. 4 NO. 3 2018

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Education and Hospital Manager’s Administrative Competency: What Impact is of a Higher Degree?

Ochonma, Ogbonnia Godfrey (PhD), Nwankwor, Chikezie A & Henry-Arize, Ifeyinwa, Igwe, Sylvester E, Nwodoh, Chijioke Oliver & Ingwu, Justin Agorye, Ani, Goodman John and Dyages, Ephraim Obadiah

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Abstract

Today's healthcare executives and leaders must have management talent sophisticated enough to match the increased complexity of the healthcare environment. Executives are expected to demonstrate measurable outcomes and effectiveness and to practice evidence- based management. It has long been held that higher education could enhance the administrative competency of hospital managers and this study was constituted to examine that notion. Data for this study came from a cross-sectional survey distributed amongst management staff in twenty five (25) hospitals that were purposively selected. Descriptive statistics-- were used to summarize the items of the questionnaire. Inferential statistics--was used to determine whether significant difference existed between groups (those with 1st degree and those with higher degree) in the overall administrative competency scores. These statistical techniques were done using the IBM SPSS version 20. Overall, there was a significant competency difference between administrators with 1st degree and those with higher degree, p = .048 in favour of the latter. The mean rank indicates that administrators with higher degree (54.30) had higher overall managerial skill competencies than those with 1st degree (42.47). This work has no doubt demonstrated the positive effect of higher education on administrators’ competency overall scores. The more educated a manager is, the better is his cognitive reasoning and administrative competency.

keywords:

Hospital administrators, measurable outcomes, job performance, higher education, cross-sectional survey, Nigeria

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