Organizational Rewards and Performance of Health Centre IV Workers in Greater Mbarara District, Uganda

Abstract PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to study relationship between organizational rewards, andperformance of Health Centre IV workers in greater Mbarara District.MethodsThis study used cross-sectional, explanatory and correlational approaches, and it utilised healthcenter IV’s workers’ data that were collected by using a questionnaire survey from a sample of 200 healthworkers from 11 health centres from greater Mbarara district.FindingsResults revealed that rewards, were significantly associated with health workers’ performances.Contrary to previous thinking, organizational rewards and constructs do not significantly predict healthworkers’ performance. Once health centre IV’s have appropriate reward strategies for their health workersin health facilities, they are likely to work hard by meeting deadlines, being available at their work stationand they would eventually enhance on job performance.Research limitations/implicationsThis study focuses on rewards, and performance of health workers’ inhealth centres iv in greater Mbarara and it is possible that these results are only applicable to the publichealth centres iv in greater Mbarara. More research is therefore needed to further understand the relationshipbetween rewards, and performance of health workers in other sectors such as the private health sector andin other areas of the country like northern, central and eastern Uganda.Practical implicationsThe results are important for health policy development and implementation, forexample, in terms of primary health care and reporting lines for the health workers so as to enhance on theirperformance in public health sector.Originality/valueAs far as the authors are aware, no research has hitherto been undertaken thatinvestigates the relationship between reward practices on health workers’ performance in health centres IVin greater Mbarara district. Thus the results of this study will provide health practitioners with better insightsin some reward practices that could be adopted by government/health practitioners so as to improve theperformance of health centres IV workers.Paper typeResearch paper