Organisational support and employee engagement in public hospitals in Uganda; a case of naguru hospital Kampala

Abstract

The study was undertaken to examine the relationship between organisational support and employee engagement among health workers at Naguru Hospital Kampala. The study was guided by the following research objectives; to establish the relationship between employee rewards and employee engagement, to examine the relationship between job conditions and employee engagement and identify the relationship between supervisor support and employee engagement among health workers in Naguru Hospital in Uganda. The analysis done revealed that a significant positive relationship existed between the study variables of employee rewards and job conditions and employee engagement. However supervisor support was not significant. The regression model revealed that employee rewards and job conditions were significant predictors of employee engagement and all the independent variables predicted 86.9% variations in employee engagement. The study concluded that employee rewards and job conditions greatly influence employee engagement among the health workers at Naguru Hospital. The study recommended that management should put resources in offering a fair and equitable rewards to its health workers and improve on the job working conditions at Naguru Hospital if they are to enhance their health workers levels of engagement.