Abstract:
This research attempts to identify the job satisfaction level of health professionals
working at Ungoofaaru Regional Hospital (URH) and examine the relationship between
psychological, physical and environmental factors that influence the job satisfaction level
among them. The stratified random technique was used in selecting the portion of the
health professionals required for the sample. Data was collected by using a selfadministered
questionnaire from 52 health professionals. Both descriptive and inferential
statistics were performed by using the SPSS version 20. The result shows that job
satisfaction has a significant relationship with health & safety measures, job security, job
promotion, pay, welfare services, use of skills and abilities and organization culture.
Moreover, result also shows that job satisfaction does not have any relationship with coworkers
support and working environment. Besides that, result showed that 78.8% of
health professionals are satisfied with their jobs and only 21.2% were dissatisfied.
Furthermores, result also indicated that most influencing mativator was job promotion
and the most influencing hygiene factor was welfare services. Thus, a special attention
need to be given for job promotion and welfare services in order to increase the level of
job satisfaction among the health professionals working at URH.
