STUDY OF JOB SATISFACTION AMONG FACULTY MEMBERS OF NURSING COLLEGES IN THAILAND.
Contributors: University of North Texas.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Education, Administration.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this study was to investigate job satisfaction among full-time faculty members of nursing colleges in Thailand, by using the Faculty Job Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction Scale developed by Olin R. Wood. The investigation was based on the ten factors of job satisfaction selected from the Herzberg Motivation-Hygiene theory as follows: achievement, growth, interpersonal relations, policy and administration, recognition, responsibility, salary, supervision, work itself, and working conditions. The questionnaire consisted of 68 items, using a six-point rating scale for ten factors of job satisfaction. The population consisted of 621 full-time nursing faculty members in twenty-one nursing colleges across the country of Thailand. A total of 408 nursing faculty members or 65.70 percent of the population participated in this study. Frequencies, percentage, one-way ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, regression analysis, and coefficience of concordance W. were used in the follow-up investigation, with the level of significance at.05.

The findings of this study indicated that nursing faculty members were satisfied with their job within rank order of importance: work itself, responsibility, interpersonal relations, recognition, achievement, supervision, policy and administration, growth, working conditions, and salary factor. Variables such as level of education or regional differences contributed no significant variations to job satisfaction, while those of working position, programs of teaching, age, salary, and length of service of nursing faculty members contributed significantly to job satisfaction. This study is congruent with results of two other studies of overall job satisfaction of faculty members: Vatthaisong's study, and Karoonlanjakorn's study.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-08, Section: A, page: 1956.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS, 1987.

School code: 0158.