THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCE, ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS, AND STAFF NURSE JOB SATISFACTION.
Contributors: University of Pittsburgh.
Published: 1991
Number of pages: 247
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations.
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among managerial performance, environmental factors, and staff nurse job satisfaction. The investigator developed the Staff Nurse Opinion Survey (SNOS) to collect all study variables. The SNOS contained a managerial performance scale and a characteristics of work scale. Cronbach's alpha was.93 for the managerial performance scale and.77 for the characteristics of work scale.

The SNOS surveys were mailed to the homes of a random sample of staff nurses who were members of their state nurses' association. The response rate for this study was 63% (N = 451). The respondents were currently employed as staff nurses in a variety of specializations, in at least 86 different health care facilities.

Univariate and multivariate analyses were conducted. A factor analysis of job satisfaction survey items resulted in two factors: satisfaction with work and satisfaction with pay. A factor analysis of managerial performance survey items resulted in six factors: Decisive diplomat, Supervisory support, Communication, Autonomy, Autocracy, and Participation in management. A factor analysis of the characteristics of work survey items resulted in five factors: Demands of work, Organizational support, Self-fulfillment through work, Job enrichment, and Relations with fellow employees.

Stepwise logistic regression was used to identify variables independently associated with job satisfaction, managerial performance, and organizational performance. Four major study findings are presented. First, the staff nurses' perceptions of the bosses' managerial performance had an independent association with the staff nurses' level of satisfaction with work. Second, organizational variables, such as the shift worked, the extent to which the respondent "gets along" with fellow employees, Self-fulfillment through work, Organizational support, Job enrichment, and Relations with fellow employees were found to be independently associated with the staff nurses' satisfaction with work. Third, the odds that a staff nurse would be satisfied with work when his or her most important value was fulfilled by work were 2 times greater when the staff nurse's most important value was fulfilled, rather than not fulfilled, by work. Fourth, Demands of work and the staff nurses' overall ratings of their health care facilities to provide nursing services were the only two variables that had an independent association with the respondents' satisfaction with pay.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-02, Section: B, page: 0775.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH, 1991.

School code: 0178.