Introduction:

The current hospital organizations should set a strategic goal to develop a highly competent staff committed to environmental protection, due to the vital importance of this issue to achieve the survival of humanity. Therefore, hospitals in Cuba, specifically “Lucía Íñiguez Landín” hospital, “Vlaimir Ilich Lenin” hospital and “Octavio de la Concepcion y la Pedraja” hospital, in Holguin, show the need to improve their environmental performance through training their workers, for being key factors in achieving organizational success.

Objective:

To assess the efficacy of the integration of the environmental dimension in the training of human resources in these hospitals in the municipality of Holguín.

Methods:

Theoretical methods were used such as historical-logical, analytical-synthetic, inductive-deductive, systemic-structural and statistical. The empirical methods were surveys of workers in the hospitals studied, interviews with members, the human resources department in the hospitals studied, participant observation and consultation of documents for collecting information.

Results:

The study resulted in the identification and evaluation of environmental risks by job posts, environmental competencies by charges associated with the components, environmental procedures, and evaluation of the effectiveness of the integration according to the organization and individual objectives, as well as improvements in the fundamental performance indicators in these hospitals in Holguin.

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