Impact of Organizational Culture and Employee Engagement on Intention to Quit Among Medical Professionals During Covid -19 Pandemic

Abstract

Maintaining proactive health workers having the capabilities to be top performers is acknowledged as a pre-requisite for the long-term success and sustainability of expert doctors in hospitals in lieu of COVID-19 standardised procedures. The present study aims to fill the research gaps that have been identified and find out the impact of prevailing organizational culture on employee engagement and intention to quit. Employee engagement and organisational culture were anticipated to play a pivotal role in the connection among both proactive health workers and their intention to quit as per the undertaken study. The study was conducted on 156 Doctors from several Saudi Arabian hospitals with more than two years of experience and was used as a sample using purposive random sampling techniques. It was found that doctors are involved in experimentation during the Covid which we believe was the need of the hour to experiment with various possible techniques and tools for the sake of survival. Intellectual and affective engagement was also found to be high among doctors and intention to quit the job was found to be at a moderate level. Intention to quit was found to be negatively correlated with all the dimensions of employee engagement.