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Type | Journal Article - The International Journal of Health Planning and Management |
Title | Health worker (internal customer) satisfaction and motivation in the public sector in Ghana |
Author(s) | |
Volume | 19 |
Issue | 4 |
Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2004 |
Page numbers | 319-336 |
URL | http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/206813/Agyepong.pdf |
Abstract | This paper describes factors affecting health worker motivation and satisfaction in the public sector in Ghana. The data are from a survey of public sector health care providers carried out in January 2002 and repeated in August 2003 using an interviewer administered structured questionnaire. It is part of a continuous quality improvement (CQI) effort in the health sector in the Greater Accra region of Ghana. Workplace obstacles identi?ed that caused dissatisfaction and de-motivated staff in order of the most frequently mentioned were low salaries such that obtaining basic necessities of daily living becomes a problem; lack of essential equipment, tools and supplies to work with; delayed promotions; dif?culties and inconveniences with transportation to work; staff shortages; housing, additional duty allowances and inservice (continuous) training. Others included children’s education, vehicles to work with such as ambulances and pickups, staff transfer procedures, staff pre-service education inadequate for job requirements, and the effect of the job on family and other social factors. There were some differences in the percentages of staff selecting a given workplace obstacle between the purely rural districts, the highly urbanized Accra metropolis and the districts that were a mixture of urbanized and rural. It is unlikely that the Ghana Health Service can provide high quality of care to its end users (external customers) if workplace obstacles that de-motivate staff (internal customers) and negatively in?uence their performance are not properly recognized and addressed as a complex of inter-related problems producing a common result—dissatis?ed poorly motivated staff and resulting poor quality service. |
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Agyepong, Irene A, Patricia Anafi, Ebenezer Asiamah, Evelyn K Ansah, Daniel A Ashon, and Christiana Narh-Dometey. "Health worker (internal customer) satisfaction and motivation in the public sector in Ghana." The International Journal of Health Planning and Management 19, no. 4 (2004): 319-336.