Khairulamri, Muhammad Haikal (2021) Salary and Other Factors Pertaining to Job Satisfaction Among Newly Appointed Dietitians in Selangor, Malaysia. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Abstract
Job satisfaction is a crucial part in every job especially for dietitians. Dietitians are responsible for meal planning and nutrition implementation in the lifestyle of individual who wanted to achieve health objectives such as healthy Body MASS Index (BMI), healthy routine lifestyles and achieving knowledge about healthy food choices. Less job satisfaction means higher burnout happens in the workplace. This may affect patients’ adherence to diet suggestions by dietitians who deliver them half-heartedly. Various factors from previous papers suggest that salary, training provided, supervisor’s guidance, workload distribution and communication among workers are the possible influences that may affect job satisfaction among respondents. With this, this study was conducted to identify each of the following factors among newly appointed dietitians in Selangor, Malaysia. This study was conducted in both the private and government sectors operating in Selangor, one of the states with the highest population density in Malaysia. A quantitative survey conducted with total of 77 respondents participated in this study and the majority of the respondents were female, Malay, Muslim and U41 grade rank with a mean age of 25 ± 5 years. As many as 60% of respondents (n = 77) were satisfied with their work with a mean score of 75.5 ± 10.89. Gender (χ2 = 32.249, p = 0.691) and age (χ2 = 39.037, p = 0.378) were not significantly correlated to the job satisfaction among newly appointed dietitians in Selangor except for salary (χ2 = 99.298, p = 0.027). Turning to the correlations for each factor for this study, all factors including salary (r = 0.466, p = 0.001), training provided (r = 0.614, p = 0.001), supervisor's guidance (r = 0.291, p = 0.01) and communication among workers (r = 0.606, p = 0.001) were significantly correlated with job satisfaction except for workload distribution (r = 0.059, p = 0.612). In conclusion, the findings from this study found that all the factors pertaining to job satisfaction were significantly associated except for workload distribution. This is because there may be differences in work culture and main purpose in operations between these two sectors. The government sector serves the people while the private sector is more profit oriented to ensure the viability of their institutions in this field. Future researchers are suggested to conduct job satisfaction among dietitians in these two separate sectors to get a better explanation of the objectives of the study. Future studies should also focus on job satisfaction in various different fields in the field of dietetics as it is also capable of being a measure of job satisfaction in each field of the dietetics job scope. Hopefully this study can be a starting point for a better level of work for dietitians both in terms of organization and at the employee level.
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
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| Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Science |
| Depositing User: | Mr Khoirul Asrimi Md Nor |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Aug 2023 04:09 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Aug 2023 04:09 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/940 |
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