The purpose of this study is to explore factors affecting job satisfaction among South Korean public servants and to provide relevant policy implication for human resource management. Using the structural equation model (SEM), the authors analysed those factors that affect employee job...

Using the 2002 data from 32 Korean hospitals and using a matching method (16 public versus 16 private hospitals), this study compares Financial Efficiency (FE), Technical Efficiency (TE) and Service Efficiency (SE) between public and private hospitals. This research tests three hypotheses. The...

Hospitals in California have argued that because of hospital competition and managed care, their costs have increased faster than their revenues. By developing a payer-specific Case Mix Index (CMI) for Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid programme, this study attempts to test the hospitals'...

Efficiency has been one of the dominant values in the field of public administration. By emphasising efficiency based on the market-driven forces, the US healthcare systems have caused several problems including such as a large number of uninsured people. In order to promote equity, the most...

The South Korean government implemented a law that separates the dispensing and prescribing (SDP) of drugs in July 2000. It was one of the most controversial issues in the Korean healthcare delivery system. Drawing on the conflict-cycle view and stakeholder analysis, which was used to examine...