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Surviving Through the Global Downturn: Employee Motivation and Performance in Healthcare Industry

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: This paper examines demographic variables, work motivation, job satisfaction and work performance in a government healthcare sector in the Middle East.A self administered questionnaire was developed to randomly survey 300 employees in order to examine the significance, strength and nature of the relationship between the above mentioned variables.Results revealed that some demographic variables play significant role in explaining the variance in motivation, satisfaction and performance.Both satisfaction and motivation found to play important role in predicting work performance, whereas job satisfaction found to be significantly and positively related to work motivation.Implications of the findings for both practitioners and researchers are also discussed in the paper with some recommendations for future research in the field.

Source: The Open Business Journal

DOI: 10.2174/1874915100902010086

Authors: Abubakr M. Suliman, Nawal Al-Sabri

Institution: British University in Dubai

Language: English

Topic: Employee Performance and Management

Subfield: Human Factors and Ergonomics

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2116480903