Behind the Scenes of Health Care

CHAPTER 6

Frontline Health Care Employee Motivation and Commitment Study

Human capital is essential to any organization where there is a reliance on human resource (HR) departments to increase competitive employee performance. Strategic HR practices include improving and influencing behaviors and motivation (Truxillo 2015). Organizations depend on the performance of employees to meet goals and succeed.

Tenure of employees relates to attrition and retention; the longer employees remain with an organization, the higher their willingness to continue with the same employer (Jena et al. 2017). Employee tenure becomes a predictor of organizational commitment that can change depending on motivation factors (e.g., employee engagement, job satisfaction, ...