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Understanding employees’ responses to the COVID ‐19 pandemic: The attractiveness of healthcare jobs
Author(s) -
ALAbrrow Hadi,
AlMaatoq Marwa,
Alharbi Raed Khamis,
Alnoor Alhamzah,
Abdullah Hasan Oudah,
Abbas Sammar,
Khattak Zeeshan Zaib
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
global business and organizational excellence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.227
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1932-2062
pISSN - 1932-2054
DOI - 10.1002/joe.22070
Subject(s) - attractiveness , pandemic , covid-19 , health care , business , work (physics) , health sector , psychology , marketing , economics , environmental health , medicine , health services , economic growth , virology , engineering , mechanical engineering , population , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychoanalysis
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of COVID‐19 on the attractiveness of work in the Iraqi health sector by looking at the mediating role of employees' attitudes. A questionnaire survey was used to collect data from 218 health sector employees. The results revealed that there is a significant impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on employees' attitudes that influence their decision to quit the health sector and look for jobs in other sectors. As health sector employees are prone to suffer the most in the pandemic, this crisis significantly affected the attractiveness of jobs in the health sector, leading to an increase in employees' negative attitudes and their desire to leave work.