THE USE OF BENCHMARKING PRACTICES IN ACHIEVING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN OMAN MEDICAL COLLEGE- SURVEY BASED STUDY
Abstract
GFP & Pharmacy in Oman Medical College have applied benchmarking practices to achieve competitive advantage though the private universities to a greater extent. Based on the present study, Significant or marginally significant differences were found between the pharmacy and GFP faculty as seen below from the mean differences scores:
- Pharmacy faculty give more importance to benchmarking with other institutions as compared to GFP faculty ( 4.33 vs. 3.57, P-value =0.056)
- GFP faculty give more importance to in-house benchmarking as compared to Pharmacy faculty ( 4.71 vs. 4.17, P-value =0.051)
- GFP faculty give more importance to linking with quality management practices as compared to Pharmacy faculty ( 4.71 vs. 4.00, P-value =0.07)
- GFP faculty appear more convinced that success of benchmarking to a large extent improves people administration as compared to Pharmacy faculty ( 4.17 vs. 3.75, P-value =0.08)
- GFP faculty are not convinced that the college has been successful in producing low student faculty ratio as compared to Pharmacy faculty who feel the college has been quite successful in this ( 3.14 vs. 4.17, P-value=0.03)
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How to cite this article:
Dr. A R Mullaicharam, Dr. Yaseen Al Lawatia, Dr. Jayasekher, Dr. Nirmala Halligudi, Mr. Ahmed Basheer; The use of benchmarking practices in achieving competitive advantage in Oman Medical College- Survey based study; Panacea Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2018:7(3); 20-34.
