Motivation and Job Satisfaction: A Comparative Study among Pharmacists

Abstract

This survey-based qualitative descriptive research has been undertaken in Tirunelveli city, Tamilnadu with the objectives of identifying and differentiating the perceptions of the pharmacists towards the impacts of factors associated with motivation on job satisfaction. The study has analysed various factors associated with motivation under two dimensions namely organisation structure and policy-related factors and pharmacists’ specific factors. The study has discussed 18 factors in each dimension, respectively. The study has sampled 120 pharmacists qualified with both bachelor in pharmacy and diploma in pharmacy from both multi-speciality and single speciality hospitals (60 respondents from each kinds of hospitals, respectively) using judgement sampling method. Percentage, mean and standard deviation have been applied to analyse the data. The results of the study show that there is no significant difference in the perception of the pharmacists towards the majority of the factors associated with motivation that affect their job satisfaction. Moreover, the level of perception among the pharmacists working in both kinds of organisations is also same.