The Relationship between Role Clarity and Efficiency of Employees in Management & Resource Development Department of Ministry of Health and Medical Education of I.R.Iran, 2014

Fatemeh Samie, Leila Riahi and Seyed Jamaledin Tabibi

Department of Health Services Management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran  

DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bbra/1964

ABSTRACT: The occupational roles of employees have been a challenging subject among the scholars and researchers during the recent years. The first step to evaluate the performance of the sections of an organization is to evaluate their efficiency. Therefore, the main aim of this research is to investigate the relationship of the role clarity and the efficiency of the employees of Management & Resources Development Department of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of I.R.Iran. This is a descriptive-analytical research conducted in a certain period in 2014 on 133 sample employees selected randomly using Cochran's C test from an statistical society of 312 employees of Management & Resources Development Department of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of I.R.Iran. The questionnaire was created by the researcher and, having determined its reliability and validity, was distributed among the employees and collected. Since the variables were normal, the T Test and Analysis of Variance were used to investigate the significance of the differences of role clarity and efficiency variables and also to investigate the relationship between the role clarity and factors of efficiency. Most of the employees in this study were female (63.9%), holders of Master’s degrees (40.6%). The most average of the surveyed variables belonged to role clarity (2.47) and the least average accounted for educational aspect (1.66) among the employees. There was a significant statistical relationship between role clarity and general efficiency of the employees (p-value=0.000), and between the role clarity and each aspects of efficiency of employees including alignment with organizational goals, work pace, proper use of the equipment and facilities, self-assessment, trainings, being committed to the workplace regulations. There is a significant and direct relationship between the role clarity and the efficiency of the employees. Therefore, the managers of Ministry of Health and Medical Education are suggested to aim their efforts to increase the role clarity to create a more proper ground for the efficiency of the works.

KEYWORDS: role clarity; efficiency; Ministry of Health and Medical Education

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