Abstract:

Objective To investigate the highly-recognized job evaluation factorsamong the doctors from tertiary general hospitals and to establish a doctor-oriented job evaluation factor system for general hospitals followed with the reliability and validity analyses.Methods A questionnaire about the highly-recognized 23 job evaluation factors was launched among 791 doctors by the stratified sampling from six tertiary general  hospitals in Beijing,and the factors were from a job evaluation model of  tertiary general hospitals.Initial factor solutions were obtained by the principal components analysis of all evaluation factors and the main factors whose eigenvalues were over one were extracted as evaluation dimensions.Factor loadings were attained through Varimax and the factor whose factor loading was lower than 0.5 was eliminated.A reliability analysis by calculating Cronbach αcoefficient and a validity analysis with structural equation modeling were sequentially conducted on the job evaluation factor system.Results A doctor-oriented job evaluation factor system for general hospitals including 22 factors subject to 3 dimensions was established while the factor of job relevance was removed.The internal consistency coefficients of the dimensions were greater than 0.8 according to the calculation of Cronbach α ,which showed a nice reliability. Several main indexes for evaluating the model fitting were all close to 0.9,which indicated a fair structural validity. Conclusion A doctor-oriented job evaluation factor system for general hospitals is established with fair reliability and validity,which could provide more references to the job evaluation of the doctors in  tertiary general hospitals.

Key words: general hospitals, job evaluation factors, doctors, reliability, validity