Improving Healthcare Management at the Top

In this book the authors explore the influence of gender on organizational performance in the health care sector. They argue that gender diversity of boards improves health care organizational performance when compared to homogeneous boards. The theoretical framework used was developed from conducting literature reviews of scholarly academic journal articles on gender boards and organizational performance as well as performing an in depth study of the performance of health care organizations in Ontario Canada. Research results suggest that effective boards and their composition were dependent on their female to male ratio to realize administrative efficiencies. Publicly funded nonprofit 126 acute care hospitals located in Ontario Canada were chosen as the health care sector for this research. Limitations of this study are in the complexity of the health care industry competing internal and external priorities and funding constraints. Nevertheless this book is original work and relevant for use by boards to examine the complementary mix of gender as a predictor of organizational performance.