Equity in Human Resource Management of Medical Technologists A Case Study of Public and Private Hospitals in Songkhla Province

Abstract

This descriptive research aims to investigate the equity in human resource management of medical technologists in each role, status, organization, and to explore the need for equity in human resource management of medical technologists in Songkhla Province. Data was collected from a sample group of medical technologists (106 out of 168). A survey questionnaire was used as a data mining tool and was proved by professionals and its reliability was 0.86.

From the study, we found that the group of bachelor’s degree medical technologists (in the age range between 22 to 31 years) with work experience between 1 to 10 years and the average salary between 10,000–20,000 bath had significantly different perspectives of need for equity in salary rates, welfare, and career stability compared to other groups. We also found that the group of medical technologists who work at the practitioner level from government hospitals seem to have significantly different perspective on the career stability while those from tertiary hospitals tend to have significantly different perspective toward salary rates.

Data shows that most of the medical technologists prefer to have equity in every aspect and those who work in private hospitals demand more respect than those who work in public hospitals. We believe that the Association of Medical Technologist of Thailand should cooperate with every hospital in order to set a new standard for equity in salary rates, welfare, and respect especially for new medical technologists and those who work at the practitioner level.