"We need another careful look and try to wean companies off so-called experts that have set up an industry advising companies," said Helena Morrissey, chair of the Investment Association and member of the executive remuneration working group it established last year.
In contrast, the Labour Market subfactor measures such issues as labour costs and remuneration, working relations, and skills.
Thematic analysis (34 interviews, one focus group) identified social status expectations as fundamental to dissatisfaction with financial remuneration, working environments and relationships between different clinical cadres.
Push factors within health care systems are low remuneration, work-associated risks (i.e. TB and HIV/AIDS), heavy workloads and poor infrastructure and working conditions.
The findings indicate that remuneration, working conditions, work flexibility, career pathing and autonomy of labour processes are the key drivers of this mobility.
Challenges faced by health professionals in Malawi fall into those that impact on work status and remuneration, working conditions, opportunities for further training/advancement and unfair recruiting practices.
These studies have identified the range of factors, such as personal work ethic, remuneration, working conditions and career opportunities that influence the job choices of health workers but provide weak evidence on the relative importance of these different factors.
Overall the midwives reported themselves moderately satisfied; least contented with their "remuneration" and "work environment" and most satisfied with the "morale" and "job security" facets of their work.
This research also showed that executives would be prepared to give up 30% of their remuneration to work in more satisfying jobs.
The concept of just remuneration for work is as ancient as civilisation itself, being present in the writings of ancient Greeks and Romans, all the world's great religions (in the modern times most notably in the Social Teaching of the Catholic church), classical economics, and the modern concept of Social Rights born with the establishment of the United Nations (Stabile 2009, 2016).
