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Monday, November 5, 2007
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Job Satisfaction
Siriluck Kullavanitiwat, RN, MSN, Burn Unit, Nopparat Rajathanee Hospital, Kunnayao, Thailand and Areewan Oumtanee, RN, PhD, Faculty of Nursing, Chulalongkorn University, Pratumwan, Thailand.
| Learning Objective #1: to understand the concept of Job satisfaction |
| Learning Objective #2: To examine predictors of Job satisfaction of staff nurses |
The purposes of this study were to examine the relationship between working factors
(experience and age
), work environment, psychological empowerment, structural empowerment, head nurse-staff nurse exchange and job satisfaction and to study predictors of job satisfaction of staff nurses working in a tertiary hospital. Study subjects consisted of 228 staff nurses. Work environment, psychological empowerment , structural empowerment , head nurse-staff nurse exchange and job satisfaction were used as a study conceptual framework and developed study questionnaires. The questionnaires of work environment, psychological empowerment , structural empowerment, head nurse-staff nurse exchange and job satisfaction were tested for content validity and reliability with the alpha of .97, .97, .97 and .96 respectively. Statistical methods of frequency, mean, standard deviation, Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression were used to analyze study data.
Major findings were as follows:
1. Working experience and age were not related to job satisfaction of staff nurses.
2. Work environment, head nurse-staff nurse exchange, structural empowerment psychological empowerment , were positively and significantly related to job satisfaction of staff nurses, at .05 level
(r =.762, .658, .657 and .611 respectively
).
2. Factors significantly predicted job satisfaction of staff nurses were work environment, and head nurse-staff nurse exchange at .05 level. These predictors were accounted for 59 percents of variance (R
2 =.590).