In the acute health care industry, it is imperative that health care organizations have educated and supportive nursing staff. Employees have to work in various kinds of environments under different management styles so that they can improve their patient care services and ensure to maintain discipline. Although the differences in management styles due to gender differences have been observed by several authors, it is still a controversial issue for the industry to understand the implication of differences in management style and gender for employee discipline.The focus of this study will be in hospitals in northern California to examine the differences of employee disciplinary practices between male and female managers within Acute Health Care industry.

An examination of differences in employee disciplinary practices adopted by male and female managers within the health care industry.

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