Employee Satisfaction

In health care organizations, it is important to not only care about patient satisfaction, but employee satisfaction as well. It is vital for employees to feel wanted, needed, and valued in their organization. After reading an article titled Best Ways to Improve Employee Satisfaction and Engagement, I was able to learn how engaging employees in the work place, is able to improve employee satisfaction. 

According to the article on The Balance, a survey was taken in order to indicate the overall satisfaction of employees. From this survey, it showed that the most important parts of employee satisfaction and engagement, is having a positive relationship with coworkers in the work place, and the ability to use skills that relate to an employees work. The third most important factor of employee satisfaction, is the meaningfulness of the job. The work itself falls to fourth place in the list of important factors.  

The list goes on and the factors vary for each organization but, this article specifically listed career advancement opportunities as the least important factor when dealing with employee satisfaction and engagement. To me, this was interesting. It was also nice to see that things like meaningfulness of work and the specific work itself was more important for employees as opposed to how much money they may make and the ability to obtain a promotion. 

I think that it is important in any organization that the employees feel as though they are valued, and that without them, the organization would be different and their work creates meaning for not only their supervisors and coworkers, but the organization as a whole.