Skills and motivation on work performance of health professionals in government regional referral hospitals in Uganda
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Date
2011
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Kampala International University(KIU)
Abstract
This study was conducted to establish the correlation amongst skills,
motivation and performance of health professionals in government
regional referral hospitals in Uganda. This was achieved by specifically
looking at: Levels of skills, motivation and performance of health
professionals; differences in levels of skills, motivation and
performance of health professionals; and the relationship between
skills, motivation and performance of health professionals. To address
these issues, a field survey of four government regional referral
hospitals was conducted with the use of structured questionnaires.
Various data analyses procedures were applied: descriptive analyses,
Pearson's correlation coefficient, single regression and multiple
regression analyses in order to achieve the objectives of the study.
Single regression analyses also revealed that both skills and
motivation taken independently are very strong predictors of work
performance of health professionals in government regional referral
hospitals in Uganda. Multiple regression analyses showed very strong
evidence that skills significantly predict work performance of health
professionals when taken jointly with motivation at a confidence
interval of 95%. Results also confirmed that overall; motivation does
not predict work performance of health professionals when taken
jointly with skills at a 95% confidence interval.
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Motivation, Health Professionals, Employee Performance, Uganda, Referral Hospitals