Strategic Management Practices And Organizational Effectiveness In University Teaching Hospitals In Nigeria

ABSTRACT

The study examines the extent of application of strategic management in

Nigerian tertiary health care institutions, and investigates:

• top managements' understanding of different environmental factors and problems affecting their hospitals.

• the extent to which differential variables (management background and experience) of the CMD contribute to organizational effectiveness

• the extent to which the Board of Directors influence on the CMD has contributed to organizational effectiveness.

• the relationships between the Nigerian environment, differential variables, strategic management practices, management philosophy and organizational effectiveness in order to determine which aspect(s) of the first four variables are associated most strongly with effectiveness in healthcare organizations.

·          the extent to which they apply the techniques of strategic management