The purpose of this study was to investigate selected factors which result in job satisfaction/dissatisfaction on nurses employed in general hospital.
The subjects for this study were 217 nurses one hospital in Chon-ju.
The nurses were surveyed by m...
The purpose of this study was to investigate selected factors which result in job satisfaction/dissatisfaction on nurses employed in general hospital.
The subjects for this study were 217 nurses one hospital in Chon-ju.
The nurses were surveyed by means of a questionnaire from December 27, 1992 to January 6, 1993.
A job satisfaction questionnaire developed by Slavitt et al. was used for this study. It contains 48 statements and utilizes a Likert type scale of 5. Participants were asked to select response which was congruent with their perceptions of the item.
The alpha score of the job satisfaction scale was 0.759.
The analysis of data was done by percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson Correlation Coefficient in SPSS.
The results of this study were as follows :
1. The overall mean score for the 48 five-point scales of job satisfaction items was 2.798, showing that the subjects of this study were niether satisfied nor dissatisfied.
2. To indentify the specific job related factors that result in job satisfaction/dissatisfaction, the 48 items of job satisfaction were divided into 6 areas and the mean scores and % of agreement were compared. The specific job related factor that resulted in job satisfaction was professional status and those that resulted in job satisfaction were pay, task requirements and administration. But the areas of autonomy and interaction did not belong to either side of the specific job related factors.
3. In the correlationship between 6 areas of job satisfaction levels, the higher the level of pay, the higher the level of administration(r = .5137, p = .000).
4. An analysis of the relationship between job satisfaction and general characteristics of the subjects was founded to be statistically significant for : age(F = 5.433. p = .0003), marrige(F = -2.02, p = .044), work experience(F = 3.5055, p = .0046), status(t = -3.48, p = .001), the nurses intention to stay(F = 3.7564, p = .0116).