STAFF NURSE JOB SATISFACTION AS MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN STAFF DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS (MASLOW, HERZBERG).
Contributors: Ball State University.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The study was designed to identify the relationship between job satisfaction levels as perceived by staff nurses and levels of motivation for participation in staff development programs. A second purpose was to examine the relationship between the type of educational preparation, area of nursing practice, number of children under twelve years of age living at home, single parent status, size of hospital and years of service of staff nurses with levels of motivation for participation in staff development programs and with job satisfaction. The motivational theories of Maslow and Herzberg were used as the theoretical basis for the study.

The Job Descriptive Index and a questionnaire were distributed to randomly selected staff nurses employed in the seventeen non-federal hospitals of the Eastern Indiana District of Hospital Nursing Service Administrators. Usable instruments were returned by 186 staff nurses for an eighty-two percent response rate. Thirteen null hypotheses were tested, five using the Pearson product-moment (r) correlation and eight using a one-way analysis of variance (F Statistic).

The first purpose of the study, to examine the relationship between job satisfaction levels and levels of motivation for participation in staff development programs, revealed that job satisfaction was not found to be correlated significantly with motivation for participation in staff development programs. The small correlation found to exist was negative.

The findings relative to the second study purpose, to examine the relationship between single parent status, number of children under twelve years of age living at home, length of employment as a staff nurse, level of educational preparation, size of hospital and area of nursing practice, produced only one significant finding. Single parent status and job satisfaction were found to be positively related at the .05 level of significance.

The major conclusion was that job satisfaction was not a motivator for participation in staff development programs in the sample of staff nurses in the study.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-07, Section: B, page: 2101.

Thesis (ED.D.)--BALL STATE UNIVERSITY, 1984.

School code: 0013.