A Study on the Effect of Emotional Hardship on Job Satisfaction and Turnover of Nurses
Recently, hospitals have officially educated medical staffs including nurses to be kind due to introduction of client service like a hotel, and have supervised ...
A Study on the Effect of Emotional Hardship on Job Satisfaction and Turnover of Nurses
Recently, hospitals have officially educated medical staffs including nurses to be kind due to introduction of client service like a hotel, and have supervised whether to respect proper emotion expressing and rules of action though continuous investigations about client satisfaction (Park, 2008; In-soon Kim, 2009).
Patients have changed from a position of receiving one-sided instructions into a position of claiming own right as a client (Su-bae Kim, 1994). In terms of hospital features, patients, who visit a hospital, lose their composure until receiving treatment and also, most of them might be uneasy. Therefore, they are easy to complain something despite of right responses. Thus, medical staffs, who take care of patients, are considered to have intense emotional labor (Myung-suk Jung, 2006).
The aim of this study was to provide basic data of human resource management to harmonize personal psychological well-being in a nurse with the development of hospital organization, by grasping a grade of emotional labor in nurses and examining the influence of emotional labor on their job satisfaction and intention quit.
Based on literature review and leading theories about the influence of emotional labor on job satisfaction and intention quit, questionnaire survey was performed to 200 nurses in a senior general hospital in S. Ward in Seoul from May 3 to 11, 2011 during nine days.
For research analysis, SPSS WIN 17.0 program was used. Real numbers, percentage, Chronbach's α value, Descriptive Statistics Analysis, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis were used among statistical analysis methods.
A summary of this study was as followed:
Emotional labor in nurses was harder compared to other occupation and job satisfaction was low and intention quit was high. In the result, emotional labor in nurses was high compared with lack of understanding about emotional labor, so nurses in person are needed to recognize that they labor emotionally.
By general features, emotional labor in three shifts was higher than day duty from 8 to 5. Job satisfaction of a nurse was higher in a nurse whose years of service were high, an academic background was more than a graduate school and who was married. Job satisfaction of nurses working in the outpatient department was higher than a ward. Intention quit was higher in nurses who were in twenties with 4-5 years of service, unmarried, graduated a college and worked in three shifts.
When considering a high separation rate of nurses, hospital administrators should manage them carefully.
In the influence of emotional labor on job satisfaction in a nurse, job itself, wages/ benefits and seniors affected to nay (-), so it means that welfare, wages and consideration of a senior are important.
Emotional labor, job satisfaction and intention quit were related and emotional labor affected to job satisfaction and intention quit.
In other words, as emotional labor was getting higher, job satisfaction was decreased and intention quit was increased.
Therefore, minimizing intention quit by lower emotional labor and higher job satisfaction is thought to contribute to decrease a separation rate of nurses, to improve hospital administration and nursing productivity and also to increase nursing contribution in hospital organization.
Key words: emotional hardship, job satisfaction, Turnover