Factors affecting job satisfaction level among the health professionals of Ungoofaaru regional hospital

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.