ABSTRACT

Aim: To explore the impact of level of job satisfaction over the organizational loyalty among the employees of government hospital, governorate of Majmaah.

Methodology: This study has adopted the descriptive and analytical approach in which the satisfaction survey has been conducted among the employees after attaining the informed consent. The sample consisted of 50 employees from the hospital regardless of their job title. The survey items include, demographic features of the participants, job title, statements to assess job satisfaction level, and statements to assess their organizational loyalty.

Results: The collected data was analyzed using SPSS version 1.0.0.1406. It was found that the differences in characteristics such as gender, age, salary and years of experience have displayed no significant relationship over all the study variables (p>0.05). This study has reported that the variables such as job satisfaction, salary satisfaction, growth and development satisfaction, leadership approach and supervision satisfaction, teamwork and social relations satisfaction work environment satisfaction exerts statistically significant differences over organizational loyalty (p<0.05).

Conclusion: This study concludes that the level of job satisfaction exerts a strong impact on the loyalty over the working organization. This study recommends that promoting the level of job satisfaction of the employees can be achieved by choosing the right person, providing the rights and duties upon their joining to the institution, allocation of the appropriate workload, and rejuvenation activities to avoid the sense of boredom at the workplace.

Keywords: Job satisfaction, Health Administration; Public Health; Majmaah; Health Management