Personality of healthcare professionals: methodological justification of model through study

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to study the managerial competencies and leadership styles of top — and line-level healthcare managers that form specific properties, abilities, skills and their variable manifestations as components of the substructure of personal qualities determined by experience and the process of professionalization in the model of a doctor’s personality. Method. The sample consisted of 135 participants: chief physicians (26 people); deputy chief physicians (32 people); heads of departments (47 people); medical experts (30 people). Methods used: analysisof regulatory documents; expert analysis; psychodiagnostics (M. Woodcock and D. Francis’ Test questionnaire “Analysis of their limitations”; questionnaire “Style of managerial decision-making” by A. Karpov and E. Markova). Results. The analysis of the Professional standard “Specialist in the field ofhealth organization and public health” found general professional competencies that are the activity determinants of properties-abilities-skills in the structure of a specific segment “Specialist in the field of health organization and public health” in the model of a doctor’s personality. These include: management of all types of activities in the organization; organization of various forms of business communication; management decision-making; implementation of internal control of activities; continuous improvement of professional knowledge; formation, maintenance and development of corporate culture. Features of professional subjects of top and line management as determinants of variable properties — abilities-skills are defined. Cluster analysis identified three submodels of thepersonality “Doctor-Manager”: “Chief doctor”; “Deputy chief doctor”; “Head of the clinical division”, which can be considered as verification of the system model of the “Clinician-Doctor” personality. The value of the results. The obtained results expand the understanding of the variety of approaches to the analysis of the phenomenology of the system “man — profession” by considering the scientific and methodological resource of the concept of modeling the personality of a professional (specialist). The concept of “Model professional personality”: it is an open system formed by complementary interaction invariant, specific and varied formations in which functionally related properties, abilities, skills, which are determined by the process of professiogenesis and personality of the expert as a subject oflabor. The model can serve as a source of necessary information for an organizational psychologist or HR-Manager when developing local models of a specialist in an organization.