Management Today
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 1

A Study on Factors Supporting Risk-Taking (Rt) Propensity of Employees in a Teaching Hospital

  • Author:
  • S. Krishnamurthy Naidu1, G. V. Subbaraju2, D. Naveen Kumar3
  • Total Page Count: 4
  • Page Number: 28 to 31

1Sr. Asst. Professor, Department of Management Studies, Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Tadepalligudem, WG Dist., A.P.

2Professor and Head, Department of Management Studies, Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Tadepalligudem, WG Dist., A.P.

3Asst. Professor, Department of Management Studies, Sri Vasavi Engineering College, Tadepalligudem, WG Dist., A.P.

Online published on 15 February, 2019.

Abstract

The concept of risk-taking (RT) is examined from various perspectives such as economic, decision-making and psychological. Today, organizations regard RT as a means of discovering the new ways of dealing with problems and finding innovative solutions to them thereof. In any organization, multiple factors influence the RT propensity of an employee at the work place. The present research work is undertaken in a teaching hospital, SVIMS Tirupati, Chittoor Dist in Andhra Pradesh. It examines the factors they support and discourage RT attitude of employees in the hospital. In review of literature of Risk-taking, it is identified as an important dimension of organizational culture. The present paper focuses on correlation of RT with other important dimensions of organizational culture. The paper also examines the significant difference between male and female employee with regard to RT attitude

Keywords

Risk Taking (Rt) Propensity Teaching Hospital Proactive Dimensions Bureaucracy