The quality of health care is determined by the degree of productivity of employees, which depends on the level of satisfaction of health workers. In healthcare organizations, employee productivity is often initiated by intangible or intrinsic rewards, so it can be assumed that these are also factors that affect the degree of job satisfaction. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to examine the basic characteristics of job satisfaction of health workers in the Republic of Serbia. The results of the research showed that intrinsic job satisfaction is more characteristic for employees in healthcare organizations.

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