Relationship between personality traits and work engagement in medical doctors at the M.P Shah Hospital

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dc.contributor.authorTanaguza, C. Y.
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-25T13:48:20Z
dc.date.available2024-09-25T13:48:20Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.descriptionFull - text thesis
dc.description.abstractPersonality traits are what make each of us unique, and it also determines how we handle different situations in our daily lives. Work engagement is characterised as a fulfilling, active-motivational state indicative of positive work-related well-being. Physicians who are work-engaged are less prone to experiencing burnout and exhibit dedication and energy in their professional endeavours. It gives businesses the ability to appraise worker efficiency. The job of a medical doctor is largely reliant on their response to medical situations presented to them on a day-to-day basis, usually under stressful conditions because these decisions usually determine the overall outcome of the patient. Knowledge of their personality traits could aid in improving the delivery of quality healthcare services to patients, as well as determine the success of their careers. This study, therefore, sought to assess how the five personality dimensions influenced the work engagement of medical doctors at the M.P Shah Hospital. The research was based on the trait theory of personality. It was a cross-sectional analytical study. Convenience sampling of doctors was primarily used in the study. Primary data was collected using a single online questionnaire that was administered to a sample of 62 licensed medical doctors practicing at the M.P Shah Hospital. Data was analysed with the use of the SPSS version 26.0. The results showed that majority of the medical doctors scored high for agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness traits like openness and conscientiousness demonstrated significant positive correlations with work engagement, other traits like extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism showed weaker and non-significant relationships. The regression analysis underscored the prognostic significance of openness for work engagement, indicating that individuals with a greater inclination toward new experiences are highly likely to demonstrate elevated levels of engagement in their professional responsibilities. However, the limited influence of other personality traits implied that other factors not considered in the study contributed to doctors' levels of engagement at the hospital. The study findings suggested that policymakers could incorporate personality tests in the process of recruiting and retaining personalities best fit for certain jobs and optimize working conditions. Academicians could determine the professions that would best fit them by examining the five traits of personality, faculty development, and career planning could be tailor-made to medical doctors ‘personality traits.
dc.identifier.citationTanaguza, C. Y. (2024). Relationship between personality traits and work engagement in medical doctors at the M.P Shah Hospital [Strathmore University]. http://hdl.handle.net/11071/15556
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11071/15556
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherStrathmore University
dc.titleRelationship between personality traits and work engagement in medical doctors at the M.P Shah Hospital
dc.typeThesis
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