The compensation strategy and non compensation strategy and its influence towards workers turnover intention in Sabah private healthcare sector

As the number of healthcare employees in Sabah is low and the ratio of nurses to population is below the WHO standards, the quality of service offers to patients' population is in question. At the same time, the ambition towards healthcare tourism might not be up to standard. Thus, the study in...

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Main Author: Liau, Su Sun @ Susan
Format: Thesis
Language:English
English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/44822/1/24%20PAGES.pdf
https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/44822/2/FULLTEXT.pdf
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Summary:As the number of healthcare employees in Sabah is low and the ratio of nurses to population is below the WHO standards, the quality of service offers to patients' population is in question. At the same time, the ambition towards healthcare tourism might not be up to standard. Thus, the study investigates Compensation Strategy and Non Compensation Strategy as part of Human Resource Practices towards Turnover Intention in the three Multidisciplinary Private Hospital in Kota Kinabalu were carried out to identified if these signifies the root of the problem. A total of 105 respondents comprise of pharmacists, pharmacy assistants, nurses, and management staffs were the respondent in this study. The objective of the study is to identify which strategy leads more to turnover intention and also to verify if age and job title would moderate the effect of either Strategy. In the findings, it was identified that Compensation Strategy is significantly but weakly related to Turnover Intention and Non Compensation Strategy does not relate to Turnover Intention. Besides, Age and Job litle were prove not to moderate the effect of Compensation Strategy towards Turnover Intention. Therefore, discussion reveals other strategies which also relates to Turnover Intention. Implications of study, together with limitations and suggestions of future study were being discussed as well.