Medical Safety & Global Health
Open Access

Abstract

The Impact of Training Program on Organizational Effectiveness: A Case Study of Healthcare Organization in Karachi-Pakistan

Zulfiqar Ali and Mehwish Hussain

The Environmental Safety Awareness among healthcare providers is a serious issue of the today’s world. It is the primary responsibility of a healthcare organization to reduce the usually ignores the safety of hospital staff specially housekeeping staff. There is scarcity of data for accident and a systemic program to mitigate infection risks. This research focused on the awareness program and its effectiveness especially for nursing and housekeeping staff. The research question leaded to whether program meets with international standards and staff following the best practices. A self-structured questionnaire was filled by individuals and following results were extracted. The average score of training program was 59.54 (SD=0.54) and average organization effectiveness was 58.02 (SD=1.07). The correlation between training program and organization effectiveness was positive which indicated more the content cover in training program, the more the effectiveness of organization. Regression analysis stipulated that training program caused 0.968 unit increase in organization effectiveness. The training program and organization effectiveness scores reported by female were significantly more in male (P values <0.02). Similarly, participants who belonged to nursing profession had highest scores (P values <0.0001). Training program score was similar among staff working in different work place. However, high score of organization score was obtaining by employees working in ward followed by those working in emergency department and in ward. Office employees had significantly least score than their other counterparts. Training of employees leaded good impact on organizational effectiveness. Strategies should be made to enhance timely training especially in third world countries organization.