Background. To explore the relationship between achievement motivation and job performance among physicians, this study investigated the impacts of different personality traits on job performance among the physicians. Methods. This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2017 and 1,523 physicians from eight tertiary grade A hospitals in Harbin, China. The type of data collected included the achievement motivation of the physicians, job performance, organizational commitment, personality traits, and other demographic variables. To assess and compare the demographic data, independent
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-test and ANOVA were applied. Further, Pearson correlation coefficients were used to evaluate the correlation among the variables. Moderated mediation analysis was performed to test the correlation among the job performance, achievement motivation, organizational commitment, neuroticism, extraversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Results. Achievement motivation directly influences job performance and organizational commitment partially mediates the direct effects of achievement motivation on job performance. Additionally, our findings demonstrated that agreeableness and conscientiousness moderate the strength of the relationships between achievement motivation and job performance mediated by organizational commitment. Conclusion. We propose that hospital managers should pay attention to the personal growth of the physicians and improve their organizational commitment via creating a positive working climate and training for career planning and education. Moreover, managers should identify conscientiousness and agreeableness individuals and increase their responsibilities geared towards improving the performance of the organization.
Transformational leadership has been becoming increasingly vital to the provision of high-quality health care, particularly during major public health emergencies. The present study aims to investigate the impact of transformational leadership on physicians’ performance and explore the cross-level underlying mechanisms with achievement motivations and coping styles among Chinese physicians. During 2017–2019, 1,527 physicians of 101 departments were recruited from six hospitals in China with a cluster random sampling method. Participants completed several questionnaires regarding their job performance, achievement motivations, coping styles, and transformational leadership. Multilevel mediation effects were tested using cross-level path analysis. The result of this study indicated that transformational leadership was applied well in Chinese medical settings with a score of 101.56 ± 6.42. The hierarchical linear model showed that transformational leadership had a cross-level direct positive effect on physicians’ performance (β = 1.524, p < 0.05). Furthermore, results of cross-level path analyses revealed that transformational leadership contributed to physicians’ performance by sequentially influencing achievement motivations first and then coping styles. In addition, the path “transformational leadership → positive coping (PC) style → physicians’ performance” showed the strongest cross-level indirect effect. In summary, public health leaders should enhance physicians’ performance by promoting individual development, especially achievement motivation and PC style.
Background:To explore the mechanisms between achievement motivation and job performance among physicians of public hospitals in China, this article researched the influence of different personality traits on physicians' job performance. Methods: A survey conducted in 2017, containing samples of 1,523 physicians from eight tertiary grade A hospitals in Harbin, China.A cross-sectional study was applied to data collection about physicians’ achievement motivation, job performance, organizational commitment, personality traits and other demographic variables. This paper also analyzed the relationships between physicians’ job performance and achievement motivation using a moderated mediation model.Independent t-test and ANOVA were applied to describe and compare the demographic data. Pearson correlation coefficients were used to examine the correlation among the variables. To test the correlation of the eight variables, moderated mediation analysis was performed in this study. Results:Achievement motivation directly affects job performance of Chinese physicians, and organizational commitment partially mediates the direct effects of achievement motivation on job performance. Additionally, we also found that agreeableness and conscientiousness moderate the strength of the relationships between achievement motivation and job performance mediated by organizational commitment. Conclusions:Managers in Chinese public hospitals should pay attention to increase physicians’ level of achievement motivation, and we recommend to enhance organizational commitment through a reasonable compensation system and active organizational culture. And they should also tend to be conscientiousness or agreeableness in the arrangement. Key Words job performance; hospital management; achievement motivation; psychology; moderated mediation model
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