Information Sharing Practices on Performance of County Referral Hospitals in the North Rift Counties

Author: Kigen Joseph Kimutai, Duncan Nyakundi Nyaberi and Chirchir Kipkoech
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.55306/GRJSSM.2024.2101
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The study aimed to establish the effect of information-sharing practices on performance of county referral hospitals, focusing on the North Rift Counties in Kenya. It was anchored on the Theory of Constraints and Strategic Choice Theory. A pragmatic research approach utilizing a descriptive survey design was adopted. The target population comprised all relevant hospital departments involved in procurement, including records management, dispatch store, procurement warehouse officers, and heads of departments, totaling 140 officers in the supply chain division. The Yamane formula (1967) was used to calculate the sample size for the study. Questionnaires were employed to collect primary data from respondents. Prior to data collection, all necessary approvals were obtained, including an introduction letter from the university, which facilitated the application for a permit from the National Commission for Science, Technology, and Innovation (NACOSTI). Additionally, authority was sought from the respective county medical superintendents of health to allow data collection in their hospitals. Introduction letters were then sent to departmental heads to permit data collection from the targeted sample. The study concluded that information sharing and hospital management were significantly related, as evidenced by a positive and statistically significant probability value. It recommended that hospital management, through the supply chain division, continually enhance internal communication and improve the adequacy of IT systems across the supply chain, as these were shown to have a significant positive association with the financial performance of hospitals.
Key Words: Information Sharing Practices, Performance of County Referral Hospitals.
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The Analysis of Technology Transfer Role in Employees Professional Ethics

Author: Ahmadreza Shoa Hasani
Pages: 13-18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55306/GRJSSM.2024.2102
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Technology transfer can include equipment, machinery and tools, human skills and experience, data, knowledge, techniques as well as management. This study aims to analyze the role of technology transfer in employees' work ethics. This research is applied research and is a descriptive research (in terms of purpose), survey (in terms of time) and based on correlation. The statistical population of the research was the employees of Abadan Oil Refinery. 45 of these employees were selected as the sample of the study by available sampling method. In order to collect data, a 50-question professional ethics questionnaire and a technology transfer questionnaire were designed and used. Pearson's correlation coefficient and univariate regression were used to analyze the data, and structural equation modeling using Amos software was used to test the research model. Based on the output of the software and significant numbers, the findings showed that the four main dimensions of technology transfer in total significantly explain up to 13.7 of the variance of the professional ethics of employees. According to the results of this study, it can be used to help the professional ethics and conscience and work commitment of the employees by emphasizing and giving importance to the issues of technology and transfer and acceptance of technology in the organization as Rajabdorri et al stated in 2020.
Key Words: Professional Ethics, Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property (IP).
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