Introduction
The current economic downturn seems to cause employers to ignore employees’ satisfaction as critical to successful organizational outcomes. Employee satisfaction is particularly critical in healthcare settings as it is directly related to patient outcome. As the number of positions decreases, the workload becomes more stressful for nurses left to pick up the slack. Because of MMC’s new cost saving measures, the reduced nursing staff feels unfairly treated and overworked while the technical lab workers are dissatisfied and are consequently withdrawing from the organization. Because employee satisfaction is substantially related to effective productivity, keeping employees satisfied with their careers should be a major priority …show more content…
Using evidence-based industrial and organizational psychology principles, we have suggested approaches that will help the company better manage their human capital as it is critical to any organization’s bottom line. Fostering group cohesiveness and promoting distributive justice have both been proven to result in contented, motivated and engaged employees; to sum up, overall job …show more content…
I recommend promoting group cohesiveness among new team members. A study conducted by Kalisch, Lee & Rochman (2010) in intensive care unit revealed that participants’ levels of job satisfaction with current position and satisfaction with occupation were both higher when they rated their teamwork higher and perceived their staffing as adequate; this study corroborates the idea that a cohesive work environment increases the likelihood of employee satisfaction and serves as an incentive for employees to arrive prepared and willing to accomplish their tasks. ( ) in the healthcare field, the impact of employee dissatisfaction is conspicuous in workflow inefficiencies, delays in delivering patient care, medical mistakes; in addition patient complaints increase as tensions rise, and the quality of nursing care decreases, dissatisfaction among patients and staff, all of which can have significant negative effect on quality of care and patient
The current economic downturn seems to cause employers to ignore employees’ satisfaction as critical to successful organizational outcomes. Employee satisfaction is particularly critical in healthcare settings as it is directly related to patient outcome. As the number of positions decreases, the workload becomes more stressful for nurses left to pick up the slack. Because of MMC’s new cost saving measures, the reduced nursing staff feels unfairly treated and overworked while the technical lab workers are dissatisfied and are consequently withdrawing from the organization. Because employee satisfaction is substantially related to effective productivity, keeping employees satisfied with their careers should be a major priority …show more content…
Using evidence-based industrial and organizational psychology principles, we have suggested approaches that will help the company better manage their human capital as it is critical to any organization’s bottom line. Fostering group cohesiveness and promoting distributive justice have both been proven to result in contented, motivated and engaged employees; to sum up, overall job …show more content…
I recommend promoting group cohesiveness among new team members. A study conducted by Kalisch, Lee & Rochman (2010) in intensive care unit revealed that participants’ levels of job satisfaction with current position and satisfaction with occupation were both higher when they rated their teamwork higher and perceived their staffing as adequate; this study corroborates the idea that a cohesive work environment increases the likelihood of employee satisfaction and serves as an incentive for employees to arrive prepared and willing to accomplish their tasks. ( ) in the healthcare field, the impact of employee dissatisfaction is conspicuous in workflow inefficiencies, delays in delivering patient care, medical mistakes; in addition patient complaints increase as tensions rise, and the quality of nursing care decreases, dissatisfaction among patients and staff, all of which can have significant negative effect on quality of care and patient