Job Satisfaction of Employees in Multispecialty Hospitals in Delhi and NCR
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Abstract
The purpose of this study is to examine how medical and nursing staffs of the hospital are affected
by specific motivational factors, such as satisfaction and motivation at the place of work. This study of job satisfaction is justified on the basis of its prospective value of understanding and in
generating the optimistic outcomes from both the organisational and individual perspectives.
The study was conducted on the hospital employees as they are one of the most important
stakeholders in hospitals to explore the factors, which influencing their job satisfaction. The data
was collected from 329 employees working in a hospital but all are from different sectors such
as medical consultants (n=52), non-medical (n=110), nursing (n-=128), paramedical
(n=39).Previously developed and validated tools are four work-related motivators (organizational
role, pay and compensation, relationship and co-worker, promotion and carrier Growth) were
used. There are four categories of health care professionals, medical consultant, non-medical,
nursing, paramedical participated in job satisfaction and were compared across socio
demographic and occupational variables. The factor analysis was performed using principal
component analysis method for extracting factors to establish the features of the job satisfaction
variables measured. To explore the scope of variability in the employees’ job satisfaction explained
by the various factors and additionally identified the correlation of each resulted factor with the
job satisfaction scores.
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