Training, employee engagement and employee performance: Evidence from Uganda’s health sector
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Date
2018
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Cogent Business & Management
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the contribution of training
and employee engagement on employee performance using evidence from
Uganda’s health sector. This study is cross sectional and correlational. Usable
questionnaires were received from 150 respondents from four Catholic founded
hospitals that is Kamuli Mission Hospital, Buluba Mission Hospital, St. Benedict
Mission Hospital and Budini Mission Hospital. Data were analyzed using SPSS.
Regression analysis results indicate that training and employee engagement significantly
predict employee performance by 44.7% and employee engagement was
found to be a major predictor of employee performance as compared to training.
Correlation analysis results indicate that there is a significant positive relationship
between training and employee performance. Correlation analysis results further
indicate that there is a significant positive relationship between employee engagement and employee performance. A partial mediation effect of employee
engagement in the relationship between training and employee performance was
also established. This research is important to managers, policy makers and
Government in improving employee performance in the health sector. Given that
this study was cross sectional, monitoring changes in behavior could not be possible.
To the researchers’ knowledge, this is the first study to establish the contribution
of training and employee engagement on employee performance and at the
same time provide an initial empirical evidence on the mediation effect of employee
engagement in the relationship between training and employee performance using
evidence from Uganda’s health sector.
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Keywords
Training, Employee engagement, Employee performance, Health sector
Citation
Kasimu Sendawula, Saadat Nakyejwe Kimuli, Juma Bananuka & Grace Najjemba Muganga | (2018) Training, employee engagement and employee performance: Evidence from Uganda’s health sector, Cogent Business & Management, 5:1, 1470891, DOI: 10.1080/23311975.2018.1470891