Health sector reform : A Change Management Perspective on Health sector Reform

Healthcare is used in a growing number of hospitals to increase efficiency and quality of care. The study was carried out in healthcare sectors and particularly at private hospitals in Sulaimaniah. The study attempted to investigate change management perspective at health sector at private hospitals. However, healthcare sectors encounter problems with the implementation of change initiatives due to an implementation gap: the gap between strategy and execution. From a change management perspective, the purpose of this paper is to increase scientific knowledge regarding factors that diminish the implementation gap and make the transition from the “toolbox lean” toward an actual transformation to lean healthcare. The researchers employed quantitative research method to find change management perspective at healthcare sectors. The questionnaire was distributed randomly among 130 administrative staffs of private hospitals. The participants of the present study were 112 participants from different private hospitals in Kurdistan region of Iraq. The researchers used multiple regression analysis to measure developed research hypotheses, as for mediation the researchers used Sobel test to find the role of mediator which is change management initiative.The findings revealed that all research hypotheses are supported and more specifically, it was found that the highest value was for third research hypothesis which stated that change Management Initiatives mediates change assessment and Strategic success, and the lower value was for first research hypothesis which stated that change management initiative mediates cultural change and Strategic success. Moreover, it was found that change management initiative has a positive and significant role in mediating change management perspectives with strategic success