Measuring the effects of health workers’ expectations and perceptions towards managers on their job satisfaction: a scale development and evaluation study
摘要
Healthcare managers and healthcare workers play a significant role in the provision of quality healthcare services. Unmet management expectations among healthcare workers lead to numerous problems. There is no scale to measure healthcare workers’ expectations and perceptions of managers. The aim of this study is to develop a scale to determine healthcare workers’ expectations and perceptions of managers, to determine the extent to which these expectations are met and whether they vary according to demographic data, and to reveal their effects on job satisfaction. In this methodological study, we adopted Boateng’s three-main-and-nine-sub-stage scale development and evaluation approach. We conducted this study between October 2023 and June 2024 with 311 healthcare workers employed at public and private healthcare institutions in Kırşehir. The Expectation-Perception Scale in Health Management consists of 22 items and 5 factors with high reliability (Cronbach’s Alpha: 0.95). Confirmatory factor analysis has confirmed good fit and validity. This study has confirmed that the expectation-perception scale is a valid and reliable scale in health management. The scale developed in this study can be used as a tool to evaluate and improve management performance in healthcare institutions.