FACTORS CONTRIBUTING JOB SATISFACTION AND JOB PERFORMANCE OF NURSES IN THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

Abstract

Pe rformance of the human resources’ affects the quality of outcome and services for any organization, particularly service organization. Previous studies explored large number of factors influence employee’s job satisfaction and job performance. In this study we aimed to analyze the relationship of distributing factors (pay, HRMP, work environment, motivation, and promotion) with nurses’ job satisfaction and job performance. Questionnaire with 5-Likert scale was distributed to randomly selected nurses (160) from the 15 different private healthcare institutions from Bangladesh. Hypotheses were tested by using statistical software (SPSS). Correlation and regression analysis showed a significant positive correlation between variables like pay structure, human resource management practice, work environment, motivation, and promotion with both job satisfaction and performance of the nurses. A strong positive correlation has been found between nurses’ job satisfaction and job performance. Practical implication and future implication of the research direction have been discussed and recommended accordingly. nurses. Correlation and regression analysis confirmed significant positive correlations. It shows that higher pay can increase the job satisfaction (β =.528, R 2 = 28%, p<0.05) and improve the job performance (β =.785, R 2