Job satisfaction among doctors: A case study of government medical college and hospital, sector -32 Chandigarh

Health is the function of overall integrated development of the society and the health status is one of the indicators of the quality of life. It is not only thing but that everything else; without health is nothing that why “health is called wealth”., A hospital is a place for the definition and treatment of human ills and restoration for health and well-beings of those temporally deprives of these. A large number of professionally and technically skilled people apply their knowledge and skill with the help of complicated equipment and appliances to produce quality care for patient. Job satisfaction describes how content an individual is with or his job. As a pleasurable emotional state resulting from the appraisal of one's job and an attitude towards one's job. Job satisfaction simply could be referred to as a sense of inner fulfillment and pride achieved when performing a particular job. Job satisfaction occurs when an employee feels that he has accomplished something having importance and value worthy of recognition and sense of joy. The objective of the study isto assess the level of job satisfaction among doctors having direct interface with the patients is the challenging task of delivering health care services. For purpose of the study both primary and secondary data has been used. A sample of 40 doctors each from Gynecology and Dermatologist department of government medical college and Hospital, Sector- 32, Chandigarh has been taken as primary data on the basis of random sampling. Secondary data has been collected from the records of Annual reports, Policy guidelines, Books, Magazines, journals and publications. Therefore on the basis of the sample, Interview Schedule has been prepared for the respondents. The present paper seeks to identify the job satisfaction among doctors in a government hospital and suggest remedial measures for improvement in the prevailing conditions in the health services.