Work Life and Work Satisfaction: An Exploratory study on Doctors’ QWL from past and recent Works

Abstract

Health care system is growing complex day after day. It is mostly due to change in lifestyle, increased demand in terms of patient’s care, enhanced technology and its effect on health care delivery process. Sophisticated instruments need specialized knowledge that again leads to need of better and up to date medical education system, which on the other hand, needs better organizational structure. All these have its effect on entire medical profession as newer challenges are to be handled with enhanced skill and potentiality development and increased dedication to profession as performance management becoming key factor to avoid professional hazard in different forms. Therefore, entire health policy needs to be revised so as to offer health care workers specially doctors who are key person in health care delivery system, enough provision of quality work life, better job satisfaction to enhance their performance at work place. In our study, we attempted to to identify variables for quality work life of doctors and its relation to their work performance reviewing various literature on this aspect.