The Role and Dynamics of Organizational Use Power on Employees’ Job Satisfaction: Comparative Study in Public and Private Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2014/2015

Nega, Adiam (2015) The Role and Dynamics of Organizational Use Power on Employees’ Job Satisfaction: Comparative Study in Public and Private Hospitals in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2014/2015. Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

Background: In an organization, power is an influential tool in order to achieve organizational goals and keep human resource on the right place. And like other resources it needs guideline over the entire activities in an organization. Therefore in order in order managers to achieve organizational goals and to contribute employees’ job satisfaction using the best type of power base have an influential tool to come up with the desired out come. And there is no study done in our setting on the role and dynamics of power on employees’ job satisfaction. Objective: The objective of this study is to assess the role and dynamics of power on employees’ job satisfaction in public and private hospitals in Addis Ababa. Methods: An institution based cross sectional study design was conducted on 586 health professionals, 454 from public hospitals and 132from private hospitals found in Addis Ababa from March to April 2015. Two population proportion formulas was used to calculate the sample size using P-value 50% because there is no study done on the role of power on employees’ job satisfaction in our setting. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the hospitals. Qualitative study was also conducted in selected public and private hospitals to enrich the quantitative findings and to explore some of the major findings in detail. Results: Two hundred fifty six (56.4%) of public hospital professionals were dissatisfied with their job and one hundred ninety eight (43.6%) were satisfied with their job. Whereas in private hospitals ninety five (72%) of health professionals were satisfied with their job and thirty seven (28%) were dissatisfied with their job. The factors that affect employees job satisfaction were get training, comfortable working hours, conducive infrastructure and opportunity for further education. Those professionals who said manager use legitimate power were more likely to be satisfied with their job compared to those professionals who said manager did not use legitimate power [AOR: 1.88.95%CI: (1.31, 2.7)]. Those professionals who said manager use information power were more likely to be satisfied with their job than professionals who said manager use information power. [AOR: 1.72. 95%CI: (1.19, 2.49)]. Conclusion and Recommendations: Legitimate and information power have positive relationship to employees’ job satisfaction. Therefore policy makers must create conducive environment for the application of legitimate, expert, referent and information powers.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Vincent Mpoza
Date Deposited:	27 Jun 2018 08:17
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2018 08:17
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/5990

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