Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Doctors Towards Their Jobs in the State of J&K, India

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Background : Management gurus have long since established a relationship between the attitudes held by an organization脗鈥檚work force and its job satisfaction. The foundations of individual behavior lie in individual attitudes, and employee attitudes, ifunderstood properly, can be modified by operant conditioning.Methodology : The following study was undertaken in different but comparable study populations of doctors in MedicalEducation and Health selected through stratified random sampling to understand their attitudes towards and satisfaction fromtheir work, through a cross sectional study design with the help of an anonymous questionnaire.Results : Doctors in both Health and Medical Education have comparable levels of job satisfaction i.e. 67% for Health and 69%for Medical Education. Both study populations strive for professional excellence, but self-actualization is a potent motivator fordoctors in Medical Education while financial and social security are exceedingly important for doctors in the Health sector.Satisfaction falls among doctors by the second decade of service to rise again graduallyDiscussion : Job satisfaction among doctors is at the lowest during the most productive years of their lives, when knowledge istempered with experience and age is still on their side. It is important to recognize the motivations of doctors and provide themwith opportunities and resources for professional excellence, self-actualization and growthConclusions : Both study populations were found to have a high level of job satisfaction. They also rated professionalexcellence on a high scale as a job motivator, but did not think that their organization considered it importantPDFHow to Cite Nirupam, M. (1). Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Doctors Towards Their Jobs in the State of J&K, India. International Journal of Health Sciences, 1(2). Retrieved from https://ijhs.org.sa/index.php/journal/article/view/88More Citation FormatsACMACSAPAABNTChicagoHarvardIEEEMLATurabianVancouverDownload CitationEndnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS)BibTeXIssueVol 1 No 2 (1): Issue 2SectionOriginal Paper Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).Make a SubmissionInformationFor ReadersFor AuthorsFor LibrariansIndexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, EBSCO Host, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Thomoson Reuters), DOAJ, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic