Rank Order Survey of Seven Employee Self-Interest Areas

Abstract

'In our society there is no single situation which is potentially so capable of giving some satisfaction at all levels of basic needs as is the occupation' (Schletzer, 1966).

Employees have definite self-interests that they expect to receive from their employer. Among these self-interest areas are items such as: (1) opportunity for expression and development, (2) acceptable hours and wages, (3) fair and efficient leadership, (4) interest in work, (5) recognition as an individual, (6) safe-healthy work conditions, and (7) economic security.

To gain a better insight into how pharmacists rank these seven employee self-interest areas, a study was proposed with six objectives. These objectives were: (1) to obtain a pharmacist opinion of the ranking order of the areas studied, (2) to classify these rank order findings into individual categories, (3) to provide some managerial insight as to how sex, degree held, area of practice and other vital statistics affect an individual's response to the rank order of the areas, (4) to compare the similarity of responses amongst individuals in various professional specialties, (5) to contrast the responses amongst individuals in various professional specialties and (6) to furnish a tool in better understanding the individual needs of pharmacists practicing in different facets of the profession.

When grouped together, pharmacists expressed that the first three most important self-interest areas were interest in work, acceptable hours and wages, and opportunity for expression and development. These three areas were followed by economic security, recognition as an individual, fair and efficient leadership and safe-healthy work conditions.

The responses were stratified into individual categories. The mean order ranking of the seven areas was computed for each of those categories.