Exploring PhD Topics in Hospital Management and Quality Research: Insights and Ideas

Hi friend, I am doing my Ph.D. Please refer topics related to hospital management. It may be related to the quality of hospital services or HR topics related to hospitals. The topic should be very good and unique. Please, friend, help me find a topic.

Dear Saraswathi,

Thank you for the query. Let me raise a few questions before giving you a tip. Have you searched CiteHr? If not, kindly do so. Quality and HR are both vast fields. The study should be of some use to the organization; hence, please discuss it with the mentor there. Have you studied Research Methodology? If not, kindly see my PowerPoint presentation available at CiteHR.

Finally, what do you feel passionate about: Quality of service or HR?

Hi Saraswathi,

You have chosen a wonderful topic, I think. To outsiders, hospitality and HR services are very dry topics. I am a graduate, but if given an opportunity, I'll pursue a project on HRM issues. My personal idea about the project will be the standardization of HR services.

- Obtain statistics about how many employees know about the rights they acquire other than salary. Due to the lack of knowledge of these rights, employees have become and still are becoming targets and scapegoats of bad HR practices. I intend to prepare a questionnaire and gather responses from at least one lakh employees in companies of various statures.

- What can be done to enlighten employees about the rights they gain when employed? The availability of this information should be equivalent to that of a newspaper.

- Prepare another questionnaire to assess how well HR and management are treating the employees. Evaluate how employees feel about working for a particular organization, etc.

- Provide a normalized rating to companies based on their HR practices and make this information publicly available.

- If the statistics obtained and the analyzed results closely reflect the actual situation, to the extent that your rating becomes a significant source of a company's profile, it would be beneficial to lakhs of employees.

- Additionally, a HR quality services certification program could be designed. A certified HR professional may not be able to guarantee practical adherence to the standards, but they should have a clear understanding of what they are supposed to do.

This is a substantial project, I believe, but if you can develop a concept along these lines, it would be great.

So, that was my idea for a project. Please excuse me if this is not suitable for a project or thesis.

Saraswathi, if there is anything useful you can extract from my points and modify to suit your needs, it would be appreciated. If irrelevant, kindly ignore.

All the Best!

Jiraiya

I searched on CiteHR but I can't get any results. Can anyone help me, please? I have started my PhD without any idea, so please help me, friends.

Dear Saraswathi,

I wonder how you can start your Ph.D. "without any idea." Where have you registered for the degree, and do you not have a supervisor to guide you? Have you done any literature search and read any articles available on the web? Please also answer other questions raised by me in my previous post.

I was forced by my family members, so I registered for my Ph.D. I got an idea to do research in the hospital sector because I am working in a hospital. I also have a guide. I have not read any articles. My guide suggested that I do research in the service sector because of my profession. I also came up with an idea to do research on a quality-related topic, but I don't know what type of quality people may like. So, I started to search for topics related to hospital management.

Dear Saraswathi,

Thank you for clarifying the situation. Pressure from family without commitment from you will be futile. As a part-time student, it will take nearly 5 years to complete your research and submissions. Can you spare time?

Kindly see SERVQUAL Model - Express Healthcare and see if that interests you and if your organization can provide you with the facility to conduct primary research. You can find more info on SERVQUAL at Google.

Also, see http://londonmet.ac.uk (link fixed) and http://aber.ac.uk (link updated to site home)... and mikehart-papers.co.uk/qube_web/euram_5b.doc found on Google. Student Evaluation of Learning and Teaching - National Tertiary Education Union (link updated to site home) (Search on Cite | Search on Google)

So, you see Saraswathi, finding articles is easy. I just did a Google search. I have applied SERVQUAL to teaching, and my papers (Narasimhan, K. (1997) and (2000)) have been cited by quite a few.