TY - JOUR ID - 42799 TI - Systemic Thinking and Partnership Working: A Cross Sectional Study in a Medical Sciences University in Iran JO - Journal of Health Sciences & Surveillance System JA - JHSSS LA - en SN - 2345-2218 AU - Khammarnia, Mohammad AU - Kassani, Aziz AU - Peyvand, Mostafa AU - Setoodezadeh, Fatemeh AD - Health Promotion Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran. AD - Prevention of Psychosocial Injuries Research Centre, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran AD - Department of Health Management and Economics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Y1 - 2016 PY - 2016 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 27 EP - 31 KW - Systemic Thinking KW - Partnership KW - Productivity KW - Medical staff DO - N2 -  Abstract:Background: Systemic thinking can provide practice in multidisciplinary team working and improve the organizational efficacy. This study aimed to determine the association between systemic thinking and partnership working in the employees of a medical sciences university in the south of Iran.Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed in Zahedan University of Medical Sciences (ZAUMS) in 2015. The study population consisted of all employees in ZAUMS; 370 participants were selected through stratified random sampling. Two standard questionnaires were used for data gathering. The data were analyzed in SPSS (v21) using Pearson, One way ANOVA, and logistic regression. The level of significance was considered as 0.05.Results: In this study, 225 participants (60.8%) were female and their mean age was 34.7±8.7. The score of partnership working for 362 participants was higher than the mean standard (40). Systemic thinking had a positive association with partnership working (p=0.001) and married status of the participants (p=0.04). Partnership working in male and older staff was more than others in ZAUMS (p<0.001 and p=0.01, respectively). Conclusion: Systematic thinking had a positive association with the employees’ working partnership. Moreover, the male staff had better systematic thinking. It is recommended that the managers should promote systematic thinking in staff, especially in females, for better partnership and efficacy in organizations. UR - https://jhsss.sums.ac.ir/article_42799.html L1 - https://jhsss.sums.ac.ir/article_42799_5d8f1c7bba7150d85789a0021e26b292.pdf ER -