The Effect of the Green Supply Chain Management on the Performance of Teaching Hospitals of Babol City based on the Balanced Scorecard

Today, one of the most important problems that people all over the world are facing is the lack of resource, ozone layer depletion, global warming, and environmental pollution. This issue resulted in the advancing of global organizations toward greening and the implementation of green supply chain management in organizations. Hospitals as one of these organizations by daily production of hazardous infectious waste have a great and undeniable role in environmental pollution are not considered as an exception. However, hospitals may encounter with this issue by applying and utilizing standards of green management, which can also help to energy saving, reduction of costs, and improvement of the process of taking care of the patient. The subject of the present research is practical regarding on matters mentioned in the hospital, and regarding its method is descriptive (survey) and correlative. To express this, two questionnaires (one of them is about green supply chain management and the other is about the performance of teaching hospitals of Babol city) were used to gather the data of this research. The reliability of questionnaires was calculated according to Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient (the questionnaire of green supply chain management equals to ۰.۸۳۵ and the questionnaire of the performance of teaching hospitals of Babol city equal to ۰.۸۳۱) also the validity of questionnaires was calculated based on content validity. Tables and figures were used to analyze the data, and regression test was use at the level of inferential statistics. The statistical population of this study includes the senior managers of hospitals that equal to ۱۲۵ people, and ۹۵ of them were selected as samples based on the Morgan Table. The results of the present research indicate that in the main hypothesis, green supply chain management does not have a significant effect over the performance of teaching hospitals of Babol city and in fact its Remarkable is weak, and also in the secondary hypotheses of the research, just teaching hospitals in the domain of green production (second secondary hypothesis) have shown a significant effect and the rest of the theories (green designing, green purchasing, green marketing, green packing, green transformation, and green recycling) does not have any significant effect on the performance of teaching hospitals of Babol.