Relationship between human resource management practices and employee’s job performance in selected private Health Care Sector, Selangor, Malaysia

Abstract

<p><span lang="EN-IE">Human resource management practices are crucial especially in the private health care sector. This could be because managing personnel in the health care sector is particularly challenging, therefore meeting every employee’s needs is crucial. Recently, the health care sector experiences a scarcity and unbalanced distribution of employees due to the job turnover. In addition, employee’s performance in private health care sector has shown slightly drop due to the dissatisfaction of employees toward human resource practices such as unattractive compensation and rewards packages, bias in performance appraisal, lack of training and development, and many more. Therefore, this study is conducted to examine the impact of human resource practices toward employee’s job performance. Specifically, there are three main human resource practices observed as a factor that contribute to employee’s job performance. The three human resource practices are compensation and benefits, performance appraisal, and training and development. There were four private hospitals operating in Selangor, Malaysia chosen as a sample for this study. The private hospitals are; KPJ Selangor Specialist Hospital, Columbia Asia Hospital Puchong, Assunta Hospital PJ and Sunway Medical Centre. Out of these four private hospitals, there were about 291 employees that working as front desk, nurses, clinical workers, and administration staff have been chosen as a respondent in this study. The questionnaires were distributed to the respondents by hand. The data collected analysed by using SPSS version 29. The findings indicate that employee’s job performance in Malaysia private hospitals is positively correlated with compensation and benefits. Employees feel motivated with compensation which encouraged them to increase their production and work more efficiently. Additionally, the findings also suggest that performance appraisal and training and development significantly contribute to employee’s job performance.</span></p>