Surviving Through the Global Downturn: Employee Motivation and Performance in Healthcare Industry

This paper examines demographic variables, work motivation, job satisfaction and work performance in a government healthcare sector in the Middle East. A self administered questionnaire was developed to randomly survey 300 employees in order to examine the significance, strength and nature of the relationship between the above mentioned variables. Results revealed that some demographic variables play significant role in explaining the variance in motivation, satisfaction and performance. Both satisfaction and motivation found to play important role in predicting work performance, whereas job satisfaction found to be significantly and positively related to work motivation. Implications of the findings for both practitioners and researchers are also discussed in the paper with some recommendations for future research in the field.