Drivers of job satisfaction among healthcare professionals: a quantitative review
Ruthann Cunningham, Jonathan Westover, Jaron Harvey
Abstract
This study aims to understand the drivers of job satisfaction (intrinsic rewards, work relations, extrinsic rewards, and work-life balance) among healthcare professionals on a global scale. Job satisfaction responses from the 2015 Work Orientations IV wave of the International Social Survey Programme were analyzed. Respondents self-identified their occupation based on corresponding International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO-08) codes. Overall job satisfaction was highest among health service managers and generalist medical practitioners and lowest among environmental hygiene professionals and nursing professionals. The findings of this study may assist health services managers in recognizing low job satisfaction and developing occupation-specific engagement strategies for healthcare employees.