ORGANISATIONAL MOTIVATION AND PERFORMANCE OF HEALTH CENTRE IV WORKERS IN SELECTED DISTRICTS OF SOUTH WESTERN UGANDA

Abstract

The study aimed at examining the relationship between employee commitment, organizational rewards and job conditions on performance of Health Centre IV workers in selected districts of South-western Uganda. This study adopted descriptive and analytical research design with both quantitative and qualitative approaches of data collection and analysis. A sample size 215 respondents that consist of health workers, political leaders, end-users and supervisors participated in this study. The data was collected using questionnaire survey and interview method. It was also analyzed using both SPSS v.25 and Nvivo statistical packages respectively. The results revealed positive and significant associations between employee commitment and performance of health centre IV workers; organizational rewards and performance of health centre IV workers in selected districts of south western Uganda and job conditions and performance of health centre IV workers in selected districts of south western Uganda. In regards to employee commitment, it was established that while affective and continuance commitment were noticed to be important predictors of health center IV workers, normative commitment was not. In regards to the elements of organizational rewards, salary and recognition were established to be significant predictors of health center IV worker’s performance, while bonus and promotion were not. The study concludes that employee commitment, organizational rewards and job condition are true predictors of health workers performance in health center IVs. Therefore the study recommends that health management officers should develop good health policies, working terms and strategies for the entire health workers at all levels for better health service delivery of all citizens in Uganda.