The Impact of Incentives and Job Satisfaction towards Job Performance among Public Sector Doctors in Jordan: A Review of Literature

• Main Authors: Noor Aina Amirah, Mohd Noor, Ahmad Mohammad, Rbehat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: HD Industries. Land use. Labor
• Online Access: http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/5730/1/FH02-FESP-19-24154.pdf; http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/5730/
• Institution: Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin

The different kinds of incentives (financial, moral and grant specialization to doctors) are playing a prominent role in influencing the performance of doctors in public sector in Jordan, and guide their behavior to achieve the public health sector goals. The subject of incentives has become the focus of many management scholars and researchers because of the strong correlation between incentives, job satisfaction and job performance. Several theories such as Maslow’s human needs theory , Herzberg two factors theory and other theories became the basis of many studies and researches of incentives and job satisfaction, hence the scholars and researchers were interested in studying job performance academically as a part of organization psychology, also it has become a part of human resources management This paper aims to know the relationship between incentives (financial, moral, and grant specialization to doctors) and the performance of doctors in public sector in Jordan. The study also tries to prove in literature either the job satisfaction act as a mediator variable between incentives and job performance or not.