Human Resources Novelty to Measure Incentive Factors for Health Professional in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia(KSA) Dr. Khasawneh Adnan, Dr. Alhazemi Abdulrahman Online published on 4 August, 2018. Abstract Background Addressing the shortage of health service professionals (doctors and nurses) in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) continue to be an enormous challenge. The lack of motivation of health professionals to work in (KSA) is one of the major reasons for such shortage. Although some effort to investigating the reasons for low motivation, barely any studies in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have focused on generating effective and reliable instrument to quantity motivation for health professionals in (KSA). Therefore, the objective of this research was to examine and create a effective and dependable tools to measure the motivation of health professionals working in (KSA) health system. Methods The current study modified a previously developed tool on motivation. The reliability and validity of the tool were established using different methods. The initial phase of the tool development related to content development and valuation where, afterwards a complete literature review, the tool with 19 items was considered. Nonetheless, in light of the literature review and pilot trial, the same tool was modified to be adequate with local context by adding 7 items so that the tool have a 26 items. A correlation matrix was applied to check the pattern of relationships among the items. The random sample size for this research contain 154 health professionals from Western (KSA) province. for the sampling phase, the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin measure of sampling adequacy and Cartlett's test of sphericity were employed and finally factor analysis was carried out to calculate the eigenvalues and to understand the factors that may affecting health professionals motivation in (KSA). Results A correlation matrix value of 0.017 was acquired narrating multi-co-linearity between the observations. Based on early factor analysis, 8 out of 26 study factors were omitted from the study components with a cutoff range of less than 0.6. Running the factor analysis again suggested the inclusion of 18 items which were consequently labelled under the following items: transparency, goals, security, convenience, benefits, encouragement, adequacy of earnings and further growth and power. Conclusions Undoubtedly the research study showed that, we have reached to a conclusion that There is a great need to develop mechanisms directed at measuring the motivation of health service providers. The instrument used in the study has good psychometric properties and may serve as a suitable device to measure the professionals motivation in (KSA). therefore; Proper management of human resources is critical in providing a high quality of health care.also a refocus on human resources management in health care and more research are needed to develop new policies. Top Keywords HR Health Professionals Motivation in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Top |