Background: Physicians engagement to the hospital is moreimportant due to the growth and development of hospital aswell as tighter competition. Eka Hospital management attemptedto change the strategy for designing remuneration system andphysician partnership patterns so that physicians as the mainactors in medical service have high engagement to the hospital.Objective: To analyse the correlation between remunerationsystem, physician partnership patterns and physicians engagementat Eka Hospital, and to analyse other related factorinfluencing physicians engagement to the Eka Hospital.Method: This study used a cross-sectional survey, supplementedby qualitative data collection. Data were analysed usingcorrelation between remuneration system, physician partnershippatterns and physicians engagement.The instrumentsapplied in this study were questionnaires concerning perceptionsof the remuneration system that have been tested for itsvalidity and reliability, adopted from the Utrecht Work EngagementScale.Result and discussion: The study showed that only 30% ofphysicians at Eka Hospital had strong engagement. Most physicianswith positive perception toward remuneration systemhad strong engagement to Eka Hospital. While those with lowengagement also had negative perception toward the remunerationsystem. Most physicians with strong engagementwere part-time specialists. Likewise, those with weak engagementwere also part-time specialists. Engagement wasnot only related to material or income they received but alsoother non-material forms of reward and recognition. Therewas a correlation between physicians engagement with workinglocation. BSD-City physicians had stronger engagementthan Pekanbaru physicians. By specialization, non surgeryphysicians had higher engagement than surgery physicians.Another related factors to physician engagement were motivationsof working at Eka Hospital, such complete facility toenable them to develop their skill and professionalism, andsimilar vision and mission with Eka Hospitals.Conclusion: There was no correlation between remunerationsystem and part time or full time physician engagement.Physician engagement was related to hospital perception supportlike completeness of the facility and staff support, visionand mission of the hospitals and prospect for development ofskills and professionalism.Key words: physicians engagement, remuneration, privatehospital
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Subtitle Article | Jurnal Manajemen Pelayanan Kesehatan Vol 15, No 03 (2012) |
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