Determinants of Job Satisfaction among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana : A Position Paper

Authors

  • Elvis Adu  School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China
  • Fanglin Li  School of Finance and Economics, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China
  • Lucy Boahemaa  School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China
  • Maxwell Opuni Antwi  School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China
  • Ama Boafo-Arthur  School of Management, Jiangsu University, 301 Xuefu Road, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, P.R. China and School of Continuing and Distance Education, University of Ghana, P. O Box LG25, Legon, Accra Ghana

DOI:

https://doi.org//10.32628/IJSRSET196611

Keywords:

Job Satisfaction, Healthcare Professionals, Work Environment, Organizational Policies, Psychological Well-Being, Job Involvement, Affective Commitment, Work Engagement

Abstract

There is a growing interest in the health professionals’ performance sustenance and work- related attitudes research. This is primarily because health professionals experience on daily basis some undesirable variables like fatigue, `well-being, stress, emotional drain, psychological need frustration and job dissatisfaction which affect performance and its sustenance. Health managers quest to resolve issues of performance sustenance, have resulted in difficulties in their attempt to motivate health professionals to be highly functional and effective to sustain performance. In a lower-middle income country like Ghana, there has not been a lot of success in this regard considering the enormity of psychological challenges and the seemingly disturbing work environment health professionals engage their services in. These continue to affect performance fundamentally because they keep experiencing negative development psychologically. Additionally, it has been documented severally in the extant literature how these negative psychological developments affect the performance of healthcare professionals which unreservedly requires a new dimension in the way work environment is managed. A gap our study intends to address through the incorporation of positive psychological capital which we seek to use in moderating the work related attitudes that has the capacity to address the negativity that has engulfed work environment among healthcare professionals.

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Elvis Adu, Fanglin Li, Lucy Boahemaa, Maxwell Opuni Antwi, Ama Boafo-Arthur, " Determinants of Job Satisfaction among Healthcare Professionals in Ghana : A Position Paper, International Journal of Scientific Research in Science, Engineering and Technology(IJSRSET), Print ISSN : 2395-1990, Online ISSN : 2394-4099, Volume 6, Issue 6, pp.35-48, November-December-2019. Available at doi : https://doi.org/10.32628/IJSRSET196611