Assessment of factors influencing job satisfaction among healthcare workers' in public hospitals in Nairobi County, Kenya

Background: According to (Kalinski, 2020) Job satisfaction is a complex combination of psychological, emotional feeling and other environmental factors that can affect an employee positively and give them a sense of achievement on the job. Further, He implys that job satisfaction can be linked to doing a job one enjoys, being productive and getting positive intrinsic rewards like enthusiasm, and contentment. On March 14, 2024 the healthcare worker’s through their union representatves (KMPDU & KNUN) announced a nationwide strike in Kenya. This strike lasted for 56 days and was called off on May 8th 2024 after negotiations, the government officials agreed to some of the union demands. (MoH, 2024). It is evident that Healthcare workers are dissatisfied and the link to the major causes is not clear. Objective: This study sort to investigate the factors influencing job satisfaction among healthcare workers' in public hospitals in Nairobi County, Kenya based on Herzberg’s Motivation Theory. Methodology: This study employed a cross-sectional research design, targeting healthcare workers from five select Hospitals in Nairobi County, Kenya. A sample of 400 participants was selected using stratifed random sample based on proportioanl allocation. The data collection instrument was self-administered questionnaires and analysis done using the SPSS software, version 26.0, with the level of significance set at 0.05. Analyzed data was presented using tables with both descriptive, and inferentiall statistics i.e. Chisquare, Odds Ratios and Confidence Intervals. Results: The study found that promotions ( p-value