ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND TENDENCY TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE HOSPITAL

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Alireza Rahdari

Keywords

Tendency Entrepreneurship, organization structure, hospital

Abstract

To develop a society, we need to develop organizations. One  of the trends in the development of organizations is their movement towards entrepreneurship. To reach an entrepreneurial organization, the role of the structure of that organization plays a special role in this matter. The general purpose of the present research is to determine the effect of organizational structure on the tendency to entrepreneurship of Imam State Hospital employees. The structure of the organization consists of three components: "complexity", "formality" and "concentration", and based on this three sub-hypotheses were formed to prove the main hypothesis of this research. The current research is of a descriptive type and considering that the data collection tool is distributed and collected in the statistical community and among the subjects, it is a survey type of research. This research has a practical purpose. The statistical population of this research consists of all the employees of Imam State Hospital in Tehran in 1402 which are 250 people in total. Cochran's formula was used for sampling, and the desired sample number was 148 people. The sampling method in this research is simple random sampling. The data collection tool is a questionnaire, the validity  of the questionnaire has been confirmed through statistical tests and its reliability using


Cronbach's alpha coefficient, so that the value of the alpha coefficient for the entire questionnaire was 0.885.  Also, the method of structural equation modeling has been used to analyze the data.


The results of the analysis of the research hypotheses using the structural equation model showed that the organizational structure has a significant effect on the entrepreneurship tendency of hospital employees in the northern region of Tehran.

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