Non-Monetary Rewards and Employee Engagement; A Study of Health Sector

Abstract

This study was conducted in order to investigate and identify the types of incentives (non-monetary) that leads to employee engagement among employees in health sector. Non-monetary rewards included training and development, pleasant working environment, preferred lunch hours, business cards and secretary. The study is conducted on 193 respondents at a private sector hospital. Respondents comprised of doctors, nurses and paramedical staff. Data was collected using self-administered questionnaire and responses were recorded using 5-points Likert scale. First the overall responses were analyzed and then individual group responses were analyzed by using regression analysis. The result revealed that only a part of respondents show positive results towards non-monetary rewards and there were differences in the responses towards each subset of non-monetary reward.