Job Satisfaction, Engagement and Associated Factors among Employees Working at Adama Hospital Medical College, Adama, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia:  Institution Based Cross Sectional Study

Abstract

Introduction: High level of professional satisfaction among health workers earns high dividends such as higher worker force retention and patients satisfactionObjective: To assess level of employees` satisfaction and associated factors among employees` working in Adama hospital medical college town from January to March 2019.Methods: institution based cross-sectional study design was employed. About 389 employees were interviewed.Multi variable logistic regression analysis was used to identify the relationship among predictors and outcome variable. P-value <0.25 will be used as cutoff point for variable to be candidate for multi variable logistic regression. P-value <0.05 and Adjusted odds ratio at 95% level of significance will be used to declare predictors of employees satisfaction.Results: A total of 389 study participant responded to the questionnaires with response rate of 92.20%. More than half 212(54.5%) were male and the mean age of study participants were 32.24 years (SD± 7.87). The overall level of job satisfaction was 185(47.6%) (95%CI: 1.43, 1.53). Factors like shisha smoking (AOR, 0.4; 95% CI: 0.01, 0.44), Co-workers relationship (AOR, 2.85; 95% CI: 1.21, 6.72), working environment (AOR, 4.08; 95% CI: 1.98, 8.41), autonomy at their working (AOR, 4.40; 95% CI: 1.89, 11.19), commitment for their organization (AOR, 2.48; 95% CI: 1.20, 5.10), performance evaluation (AOR, 5.69; 95% CI: 2.53, 12.80), promotion or growth opportunity (AOR, 9.58; 95% CI: 4.11, 22.32) and relationship with immediate supervisor (AOR,4.59; 95% CI: 1.89, 11.19) shows significant association with employees` job satisfaction.Conclusion and recommendation: The overall level of employees` satisfaction is low. The organization should work on factors associated with employees` job satisfaction in order to increase satisfaction levels of employees.

Health Professionals Job Satisfaction and Associated Factors in Ethiopia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

“…Three studies were excluded due to different outcomes. Finally, 35 articles 2,12,13,15–34,41–52 were included in the final analysis of the current systematic review and meta-analysis (Figure 1).…”

“…All studies included in this systematic review and metaanalysis were cross-sectional studies 2,12,13,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52] The included studies were published between 2011 and 2020. Among the studies included in this systematic review and meta-analysis, nine were conducted at the national level, 10 in the Oromia region, six in the Amhara region, four studies in Addis Ababa, three in the Harari region, one study in Tigray, and one in Southern Nations and Peoples Region (SNNPR).…”

“…Some of the possible factors were as follows: personal characteristics of leaders, managerial competencies of leaders, 14 working environment, job description and time pressure, 8 work environments, poor fringe benefits, dignity, the responsibility given at workplace and time pressure, 9 responsibility, opportunity to develop, staff relations and patient care, 10 opportunity to develop, responsibility, patient care and staff relations. 11 Besides, security in work environment, 15–19 coworkers relationship, 15,17,20,21 positive supervisor relationship, 15,17,19,22 having autonomy, 15,23 organizational commitment, 15,17 promotion opportunity, 15–17,23 being female, 22,24,25 marital status, 12,19,22 having bachelor of science, 22,26–28 workload, 22,28 being male, 29,30 service year, 31,32 recognition at work, 16,17,33 salary, 17,19 intention to stay, 18,25,33 management and leadership, 23,34 and being a midwife 18,25 were factors identified to be associated with health profes...…”

Health professional’s job satisfaction and its determinants in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Only three articles were conducted before 2015 [16,54,55]. The majority, 9 (30%) of studies were conducted in Oromia region [16,52,54,62,68,69,72,75,76] and only one study was conducted in SNNP region [55]. Simple random sampling technique was used by sixteen (53.3%) studies to select study participants [33, 52, 55, 56, 59-61, 65-69, 71-73, 76].…”

“…As a result, salary [53,60,65,75], working experience [33,55,[67][68][69]76] and profession type [33,66,69] were identified as factors for job satisfaction in three and above studies, due to they were reported through various category methods that create a difficulty to extract data we exclude them from analysis after discussion and agreement by authors. Support from supervisor [65,73,76], working environment [56,60,66,72,73,76], opportunity for professional growth [60,74,76], sex [61,69,73], marital status [58,61,65], educational status [33,61,69,76], staff relationship [72,74,76] and age [59,69,76] were factors that fulfill the criteria and selected for meta-analysis. However, support from supervisor, working environment, staff relationship, sex and opportunity for professional growth were identified as significant determinants for health professional's job satisfaction.…”