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More recently, healthcare providers in Taiwan face great financial impacts because the National Health Insurance Bureau imposes strategies to reduce healthcare expenditure. Outsourcing, therefore, has become a sound strategy for hospitals and institutions to reduce costs. Outsourcing certainly can reduce the costs, but the quality of outsourcing service remains further discussion. The present research aims to investigate the differences of personnel costs and service satisfaction as a result of different ways of recruitments, i.e. organizational janitors, contracted janitors, and outsourcing janitors. Three different types of janitors in a government-owned medical center were administered with questionnaires to examine their job satisfaction and motivated potential. One group of internal customers were recruited to assess satisfaction towards services provided by different types of janitors. The results suggest: 1) On the basis of internal customers’ evaluation, satisfaction towards services provided by outsourcing janitors is significantly lower than those provided by organizational and contracted janitors; 2) Organizational janitors have highest job satisfaction, followed by contracted and outsourcing ones, but no significant differences exist; 3) As expected, organizational janitors have highest personnel costs, followed by contracted and outsourcing ones. In regards to costs and service satisfaction, satisfaction towards service quality provided by outsourcing janitors drops approximately 5.2 times to 17.5 times in comparison to those provided by contracted janitors. Under the condition that the government policy to cut the personnel cost, this result implies that optimal solution for government-owned hospitals is through contracting. The results of the present study can provide a reference for the government policy of personnel outsourcing designed for government-owned hospitals.
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