Job Satisfaction and Migration Intention of Health Information Managers in Nigerian Health Sector

Abstract

A large scale migration of health practitioners was observed. Therefore, the study in bid to
understand factors that causes this migration aimed at understanding the influence of job
satisfaction on migration of health information managers in Nigeria. The survey research
design was adopted, the population of the study consist of eighty (80) health information
management professionals in the Lagos hospitals. Total enumeration was used for the study
which make do for the sampling of all the eighty (80) health information managers. A structured
questionnaire was adapted to gather data for the study. Descriptive and inferential statistics
were used for analysis. The study found a moderately high level migration intention among
health information management practitioners with financial, cultural and environmental
consideration service as the push and pull factors for the health practitioners. The test of
hypothesis revealed that Job satisfaction ((R = 0.955, p<0.05) have significant influence on
migration intention of health information managers. The study concludes that emigration
intention among health information manager is on the increase and it is mainly due to lack of
job satisfaction. It is therefore recommended that hospital management in Nigeria pay attention
to motivators and hygiene factors capable of contributing to the job satisfaction of health
information management practitioners.