Pharmacists’ Job Satisfaction

Dear Colleagues,

Pharmacists’ job satisfaction measures practitioners’ self-assessed hapiness at work. It has been positively associated with labor market outcomes such as job performance and productivity, motivation, organizational commitment, and patient safety and satisfaction. It has been negatively correlated with job turnover, absenteeism and tardiness, and complaints and grievances against management. Understanding the sources and magnitude of the mechanisms that make pharmacists happier at work is important to healthcare employers and managers in their quest to meet practitioners’ needs, decrease the turnover of workers, and increase pharmacists’ motivation and performance. Increases in pharmacists’ job satisfaction are likely to increase the quality of pharmaceutical care provided, which leads to better patient health outcomes.

We invite you to share your research into the dynamics of the forces shaping pharmacists’ job satisfaction in order to help design and implement policies that efficiently allocate human resources within various pharmacy settings. We hope this Special Issue will inspire healthcare managers, employers, and policymakers to smooth the pathways of communication, more adequately meet practitioners’ needs, and promote teamwork.

Dr. Ioana Popovici
Prof. Dr. Manuel J. Carvajal
Guest Editors

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