Study to evaluate level of job satisfaction among health care personnel

Abstract

Health care Industry has been getting growing significance in economy development and overall wellbeing of nation. This segment has government, public owned and private operators working to cater to the needs of the society. Health care and hospitals are considered to be very critical and stress associated functions unlike other work or business. The reasons are obvious the life and death scenario, patients treatment and recovery process, complex instruments, relatives and friends stress, sometimes lack of medicines or treatment and add to it emergency situations. The employees working in this industry are doing noble job and have noble reasons to make them feel special about contribution they give to organisation. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the level of job satisfaction among the health personnel of Hospital and to describe variables related to their job satisfaction. The opinions of health personnel regarding satisfaction with their jobs were studied using a Job Satisfaction questionnaire. Two levels of analyses were carried out. Job satisfaction item and a four items construct called nature of job satisfaction were selected as dependent variables. Pearson correlations were used to determine whether the independent variables were significantly correlated with job satisfaction. The key results were that overall job satisfaction was moderately high (2.23 on a scale of 3); however there are differences in satisfaction models between categories of personnel. In addition, there are significant differences in the correlations between job satisfaction and the independent variables among the groups of personnel.