Uncertainty in health care environments: myth or reality?
Health care leaders and analysts typically describe the health care environment as dynamic, complex, and highly uncertain. This study conceptualizes environmental uncertainty as an individual perception that blends subjective and objective realities derived from the complexity and dynamism of the organizational task environment. Exploratory judgments of the complexity and dynamism of the environment of health care organizations are included.
Begun
James W
JW
Department of Health Care Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA. jbegun@csom.umn.edu
Kaissi
Amer A
AA
D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006272:Health Facility Environment; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009874:Operations Research; D015279:Organizational Culture; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D012931:Social Environment; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D035501:Uncertainty