Time-Honoured Management Principles of Organizing in Private Hospitals in Enugu State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study focuses on the implementation of time-honoured management principles of organizing in private hospitals in Enugu State, as a way of effectively manage private hospitals and ensuring that adequate and timely health care services are provided to the citizenry of Enugu State. The study examined the organizational structures of private hospitals with a view to determining their extent of conformity with time-honoured management principles of organizing. The null hypothesis was formulated as, “there is no non-conformity of organizational structures of private hospitals with established management principles of organizing”. To achieve the objective of this study, the survey research design was adopted, where the simple random sampling technique was used in the selection of sampling units and the data collected were presented descriptively. The hypothesis statement was tested with Chi-Square test statistic, which gave chi-square result of 30.03 > X2 critical 26.296. Hence, the null hypothesis was rejected, indicating that organizational structures of private hospitals in Enugu State are being operated not in conformity with established management principles of organizing. The study concluded by pointing out the need to ensure the implementation of organizational structures that conform with established management principles of organizing, particularly the time-honoured management principle of organizing and the need to penalize defaulting hospitals, whether big or small.

Keywords: Time-Honoured, Management, Private Hospitals, Nigeria