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Job satisfaction, performance appraisal, reinforcement and job tasks in medical healthcare professionals during the COVID‐19 pandemic outbreak
Author(s) -
Rana Waleed,
Mukhtar Sonia,
Mukhtar Shamim
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.3476
Subject(s) - health care , job satisfaction , pandemic , psychology , workforce , nursing , performance appraisal , mental health , medical education , medicine , covid-19 , social psychology , management , political science , psychiatry , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , law , economics
Medical healthcare profession is under immense stress since the COVID‐19 pandemic outbreak on global scale, and medical healthcare professionals are enduring occupational challenges which entail frontline and non‐frontline duties, appraisal and satisfaction with their job. The present study examined perceived job satisfaction as a mediating variable that affects the relationship between performance appraisal and reinforcement on performing job tasks among medical healthcare professionals during COVID‐19. A sample ( N = 550) was selected from public and private hospitals' medical healthcare professionals ( n = 300 males, and n = 250 females). The results showed that perceived job satisfaction mediates the relationship between performance appraisal and reinforcement on job tasks in medical healthcare professionals. This study could help stakeholders, medical board regulations, mental health practitioners, employers and employees to increment sources which could establish feasible healthcare planning and management. The study has significant implications in mental healthcare, crisis management, human resource planning, effective performance and improvement in well‐being of medical workforce's psychological health.