Organizational milieux and job-satisfaction among health professionals: a Nigerian case study

bibliographic database
Line

Periodical article

Title:	Organizational milieux and job-satisfaction among health professionals: a Nigerian case study
Authors:	Erinosho, Olayiwola A. Vincent, G.N.
Year:	1980
Periodical:	The Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies
Volume:	22
Issue:	3
Pages:	351-361
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Nigeria
Subjects:	work attitudes health personnel
Abstract:	A professional normative system is largely incompatible with bureaucratic ethos. Because of the contrast between the two normative systems, professionals in bureaucratic organizations encounter difficulties. The disparity between the professional role conception and the perceived opportunity to enact the role in an organizational setting is a ready source of conflict. There are two types of bureaucratic settings: type A in which professionals exercise a supervisory role over colleagues and type B, in which the ultimate supervisory is vested in non-professionals. This study was conceived primarily to examine the proposition that a greater proportion of professionals in type B are more likely to be dissatisfied with the framework in which they practice than those in type A. To achieve this goal, physicians in two organizational milieux which appear to be prototypic of the types A and B were focussed upon. This is preceded by a brief discussion of the organization of health services (public, and mission controlled) in Ogun State.