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A Study of the Adjustment between Family and Career of Female Supervisor at the Healthcare Information Unit

ABSTRACT
Due to the continuous variation of medical policies, the competition of healthcare services markets are even more drastic and face more challenges. Among them, the advantage in competition for each hospital and clinic is information service, as a result, the superintendent of information unit in hospitals must obtain not only knowledge about information specialty but also general disposition of healthcare system; the superintendent of routine interactions between authorized superior officials and the subordinates with academic technique, under the huge pressure of heavy responsibility with minor power, how can women leaders overcome obstacles and which kinds of career development philosophy they adopt to distinguish themselves and achieve success; in the other hand, they choose to be a housewife. This study mainly explores the reasons for their choice of either working or not working.
The purpose of this study is revealing the insight of the pressures and the strategies of career development as a female supervisor in healthcare information unit. Research topics focus on the roleplay under the tradictional social expection, the pressures from both family and workplace, and the strategies of career planning.
I employ the depth interview as the data collection method. The research results are summarized in three parts, they are: (1). In the concept of tradictional value: the tradictional value affects the attitude of the gender roleplay; the stablilty becomes the most critcal critera of career evaluation; the traditional gender roleplay affects the development of strategy of career development; (2). The adjustment between family and workplace pressur: the conflict is derived from the tradictional value; the lower the conflict the higher the accomplishment they achieve; (3). Strategies of career development: looking for the support from family; create the opportunity of competion advantage; self-promotion; receiving advice from friends and advisors.
Keywords: Healthcare Information Unit, Female Information Supervisor

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0804103-112620
Date04 August 2003
CreatorsChiu, Gen-Fen
ContributorsLing-Fang Chang, Hui -Li Liu, none, Feng-Yang Guo
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0804103-112620
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