Job Satisfaction and Retention of Healthcare Professionals
Keywords:
Job Satisfaction, Retention, Hospital setup, Medical Professionals, Healthcare ProfessionalsAbstract
Several changes are occurring in the business environment, perhaps the management or other dominant forces have brought the current changes, but, it has certainly contributed to increased complexities. This has lead the healthcare sector to a critical state, where management is juggling a lot of issues and the employees are often much stressed out. Medical practitioners usually feel that they are deprived from the happiness they deserve; and the criticality of the issue has grown with growing dissatisfaction among them. This brings forth the issues of shortage and attrition as a major concern for the management due to its affect on efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare delivery system. The retention of employees is considered pivotal for the hospitals as it is interpreted in terms of their services and patient satisfaction. The study revolves around exploring and understanding the healthcare setup in India and its other attributes, which may directly or indirectly influence hospital sector regarding their employee's satisfaction and lives, and coerce them to turnover. In this context, the study focuses on providing an insight into job satisfaction and retention; along with that it attempts to identify and establish the attributes acting as determinants of job satisfaction and retention.
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