Motivation and job satisfaction of healthcare workers in private hospitals in Vietnam

Abstract

Background. The shortage of health workers is a concern for the Government of Vietnam. The goal is to motivate work through job satisfaction of medical staff in private hospitals in Vietnam. Purpose – the paper examined socio-demographic and work-related factors as the basis for improving work productivity. Materials and Methods. With the database collected 558 observations from doctors, pharmacists, nurses, midwives, technicians, and community health doctors currently working at 92 private hospitals in Vietnam, invited to survey via email, from 08/2024 to 11/2024. By using the foundation theory and through the study of quantitative conomic models, the PLS-SEM linear structure model, is implemented on SPSS and AMOS 20 software. Results. As a result, there is evidence that work motivation and satisfaction of healthcare workers have a positive relationship through the factor of professional working environment, job opportunities for learning and development, and finally the salary factor of medical staff in private hospitals. Conclusions. The paper supplements existing arguments to help improve the satisfaction of nurses, thereby improving labor productivity and maintaining human resources.