Faculty Articles
Gender, Age, and Pharmacists' Job Satisfaction
Publication Title
Pharmacy Practice (Granada)
Publisher
Centro de Investigaciones y Publicaciones Farmaceuticas
ISSN
1886-3655
Publication Date
10-1-2018
Keywords
age factors, attitude of health personnel, health manpower, job satisfaction, pharmacists, sex factors
Abstract
A comprehensive literature review was conducted on the concept of job satisfaction in the pharmacist workforce field and the facets it comprises, as well as its measurement, aiming to (i) review the nature, mechanisms, and importance of job satisfaction in the context of the pharmacist workforce, (ii) survey some of the most salient facets that configure job satisfaction, and (iii) discuss validity and measurement issues pertaining to it. Although female pharmacists generally hold less appealing jobs, earn lower wages and salaries, and are promoted less frequently than their male counterparts, they report higher levels of job satisfaction. Age has a U-shape effect on job satisfaction, with middle-age pharmacists less satisfied than both younger and older practitioners. Workload, stress, advancement opportunities, job security, autonomy, fairness in the workplace, supervisors, coworkers, flexibility, and job atmosphere are facets contributing to pharmacists' job satisfaction. Finally, discrepancy exists among researchers in measuring job satisfaction as a single global indicator or as a composite measure derived from indices of satisfaction with key aspects of a job. Understanding the mechanisms that affect pharmacists' job satisfaction is important to employers in their pursuit to respond to practitioners' needs, decrease turnover, and increase productivity. As pharmacists' response to work-related conditions and experiences depends on gender and age, a unique set of rewards and incentives may not be universally effective. Additional research into the dynamics of the forces shaping pharmacists' perceptions, opinions, and attitudes is needed in order to design and implement policies that allocate human resources more efficiently within the various pharmacy settings.
DOI
10.18549/PharmPract.2018.04.1396
Volume
16
Issue
4
First Page
1396
Last Page
1396
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
NSUWorks Citation
Carvajal, Manuel J. and Popovici, Ioana, "Gender, Age, and Pharmacists' Job Satisfaction" (2018). Faculty Articles. 69.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_corx_facarticles/69
