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Perspectives of organizational identity in a health higher education institution: a mixed-method analysis

BACKGROUND: Among the processes to be experienced by any organization during its establishment is the formation of an organizational identity. This process can be understood as the activity and event through which an organization becomes unique in the mind of its members. An organizational identity...

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Autores principales: de Miranda Junior, Ubirajara José Picanço, Novaes, Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi, Santos, Henrique Batista Araújo, Tatsch, João Fellipe Santos, Ferreira, Rafael Sanches, Vieira, Wilton Paulo de Freitas Martins, Lapão, Luís Velez
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33446207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02470-1
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Lapão, Luís Velez
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Novaes, Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi
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Lapão, Luís Velez
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description BACKGROUND: Among the processes to be experienced by any organization during its establishment is the formation of an organizational identity. This process can be understood as the activity and event through which an organization becomes unique in the mind of its members. An organizational identity leads to an identification and both are directly associated with the success of an institution. This study is about a public higher education institution in health in its early years, with distinctive characteristics in the country where it is situated. In spite of having been successful in the graduation of its students it has fragile institutional bases, lack of autonomy and internal problems common to other institutions of this type. Thus, this study was conducted to understand how this institution defined itself among its own members, the elements of its identity and what justified its relative success despite its weaknesses. METHODS: A mixed-method approach was used to evaluate how a representative portion of this organization identifies with it. For the qualitative study two focus groups were conducted with transcripts submitted to content analysis proposed by Bardin, culminating in results from which a Likert scale-based questionnaire was elaborated and applied to 297 subjects. RESULTS: There were six central elements of the organizational identity made evident by the focus groups: political / ideological conflict; active teaching and learning methodologies; location / separation of campuses; time of existence; teaching career; political-administrative transformations. The quantitative analysis revealed in more detail the general impressions raised in the focus groups. Most results were able to demonstrate distinct identifications of the same identity with its exposed weaknesses. CONCLUSIONS: Lack of autonomy, administrative and structural shortcomings and ideological or political conflicts presented themselves as problems capable of destabilizing the identity of a public higher education institution. On the other hand, one way to combat such problems is through the development of the institution itself, particularly by becoming more active and useful to the community and seeking in a common interest to the higher administration agencies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-020-02470-1.
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spelling pubmed-78078112021-01-15 Perspectives of organizational identity in a health higher education institution: a mixed-method analysis de Miranda Junior, Ubirajara José Picanço Novaes, Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi Santos, Henrique Batista Araújo Tatsch, João Fellipe Santos Ferreira, Rafael Sanches Vieira, Wilton Paulo de Freitas Martins Lapão, Luís Velez BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Among the processes to be experienced by any organization during its establishment is the formation of an organizational identity. This process can be understood as the activity and event through which an organization becomes unique in the mind of its members. An organizational identity leads to an identification and both are directly associated with the success of an institution. This study is about a public higher education institution in health in its early years, with distinctive characteristics in the country where it is situated. In spite of having been successful in the graduation of its students it has fragile institutional bases, lack of autonomy and internal problems common to other institutions of this type. Thus, this study was conducted to understand how this institution defined itself among its own members, the elements of its identity and what justified its relative success despite its weaknesses. METHODS: A mixed-method approach was used to evaluate how a representative portion of this organization identifies with it. For the qualitative study two focus groups were conducted with transcripts submitted to content analysis proposed by Bardin, culminating in results from which a Likert scale-based questionnaire was elaborated and applied to 297 subjects. RESULTS: There were six central elements of the organizational identity made evident by the focus groups: political / ideological conflict; active teaching and learning methodologies; location / separation of campuses; time of existence; teaching career; political-administrative transformations. The quantitative analysis revealed in more detail the general impressions raised in the focus groups. Most results were able to demonstrate distinct identifications of the same identity with its exposed weaknesses. CONCLUSIONS: Lack of autonomy, administrative and structural shortcomings and ideological or political conflicts presented themselves as problems capable of destabilizing the identity of a public higher education institution. On the other hand, one way to combat such problems is through the development of the institution itself, particularly by becoming more active and useful to the community and seeking in a common interest to the higher administration agencies. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12909-020-02470-1. BioMed Central 2021-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7807811/ /pubmed/33446207 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02470-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Tatsch, João Fellipe Santos
Ferreira, Rafael Sanches
Vieira, Wilton Paulo de Freitas Martins
Lapão, Luís Velez
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807811/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33446207
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12909-020-02470-1
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