title: Correlates of Job Satisfaction in Medical Officers.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A study was carried out to assess the job satisfaction of medical officers of the Armed Forces.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medical officers having a minimum of five years service, stationed in a large cantonment having a tertiary care service hospital were administered anonymously the scale developed by Brayfield and Rothe to assess job satisfaction. A total of 64 medical officers (22 administrative cadre, 26 specialists and 16 superspecialists), participated in the study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Overall there was a low level of job satisfaction among the medical officers. There was no significant difference in the level of job satisfaction in the three groups. Only 3 each of administrative cadre and specialist officers were in the higher satisfied group. The most common factor stated (91.5% of the respondents), as contributing towards job satisfaction was an opportunity for self-development. Others in decreasing frequency were job security (51.6%), prestige of organization (38.5%), nature of work (28.8%) and opportunity for promotion (21.6%). Factors for dissatisfaction were poor utilization of skills (80.8%), poor promotional prospects (78.4%), inadequate redressal of grievances (72.7%), organizational policy (68.7%) and inadequate pay and allowances (48.7%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  It was concluded that job satisfaction is a multi-dimensional phenomenon where it is not easy to assign one factor as the sole determinant of satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the job.
authors.affiliation: Classified Specialist (Psychiatry), Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandimandir.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chaudhury
authors.affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune-411 040.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Banerjee
keywords: Correlates; Determinant; Job satisfaction; Medical