The purpose of the study is to explore and present the factors influencing job satisfaction amongst doctors working in various government, corporate and private hospitals. The paper examines the descriptive components that bring in job satisfaction in a much elaborate form. The data was collected from about 118 doctors working in metropolitan cities, district headquarters and rural villages. The findings of the study present the factors underlying job satisfaction, which form the source for various bodies to formulate the policies needed for sustainable and higher quality care and, ultimately, job satisfaction amongst doctors.

Indian ethos reads Vaidyo Narayano Hari, a Sanskrit phrase, which means doctor is God, whose primary responsibility is saving the life of individuals, thus emphasizing the role of doctors in the wellbeing of individuals’ existence.

A doctor should not only be confined to merely diagnosing and providing remedies to the medical needs of the patients, but also understand their emotions while treating them, as emotions play a pivotal role in the health of a person. An efficient doctor spends more time in understanding the emotions of the patients which may have a positive impact on the treatment.

Job satisfaction is negatively related to job turnover (Freeman, 1978; Weiss, 1984; McEvoy and Cascio, 1985; and Akerlof et al., 1988) and absenteeism (Clegg, 1983) and positively related to productivity (Mangione and Quinn, 1975). Therefore, it is useful to understand which job characteristics and provisions increase job satisfaction.

Considering the importance of job satisfaction in medical profession, the study aims at identifying the factors underlying the job satisfaction.

Management Research Journal, Job Satisfaction, Doctors, Respondents’ Profile, Descriptive Statistics, Correlation Matrix, Factors Identified, Communalities, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin, Measure of Sampling Adequacy, Bartlett’s Test of Sphericity, Eigen Value, Scree Plot.