Motivation as a Factor for Enhancing Employees’ Satisfaction: A Case Study of Juba Teaching Hospital, South Sudan

Abstract

Since issues of employees’ motivation are recorded to be emerging with the current and predicted increases in low salary, delayed salary encourages turnover rates marked that human resources got dehumanized and stopped happiness to people. This study was designed to examine the relationship between motivation and employees’ satisfaction, explore the factors influencing Motivation to enhance employees’ satisfaction and determine the factor structure of Motivation, enhancing employees’ satisfaction in Public Health Hospital. 

This research design was cross-sectional and descriptive, using quantitative approaches from a population of 838 persons. The purposive and simple random sampling technique was employed to select 260 respondents using The Likert scale. A set of attitude statements was presented as closed-end structure questionnaires and interview guides. SPSS version (20.0) and EPIDATA Program for coding (CSpro 7.5 version) were used to analyze the data. The results were presented using Spearman correlations coefficient, Regressions, ANOVA of variance and factor analysis structure loading to predict the variable relationship. 

The finding showed that there is a significant positive relationship between motivation and employees’ satisfaction (r=0.003, P-value < 0.01). Enhancing and employees’ satisfaction (r=0.082, p-value <0.01). Motivation is significantly correlated with employees’ satisfaction. However, motivation and employee’s satisfaction (r=0.128, p-value < 0.01)), the staff with more opportunities for motivation are more likely to offer quality services. Indeed, employees with high motivation deliver quality services, indicating that employees’ satisfaction depends on motivation. The regression analysis shows the relationship between motivation, enhanced employees’ satisfaction (F= 1.984, sig=0.000) motivation and enhancing extremely explained employee’s satisfaction of (