Track: Operations Management and Operations Research

Abstract

This paper presents an overview of Finland’s health care sectoral structure to further explore the gaps if present, on tri-dimensional basis (i.e., a-health care leadership, b-organization communication and c-creativity) linked to the work practices, to offer insight and support to the policy formulators and care providers to implement innovative solutions for transformation. The sample and the target locations in the current research study belonged to the regions of Vaasa, Laihia and Vähäkyrö, The study results revealed considerable gap between the verbal or desired aspect and the actual or practical level of work practice in the focused dimensions (i.e., 92%, 84%, and 93% for Health care, communication and creativity respectively) as compared to their actual work effort levels (i.e., 43%, 48% and 29% respectively). The study findings offer assistance to the care providers and policy reformers by pin pointing the weak areas for timely preparation of support processes for perfecting the ideal health and social care sectoral transformation.

 Keywords: Healthcare leadership, communication, creativity, policy formulators, innovative transformation