JOB SATISFACTION AMONG REGISTERED NURSES EMPLOYED IN HOSPITALS IN THE RESEARCH TRIANGLE AREA OF NORTH CAROLINA (HERZBERG, MOTIVATOR-HYGIENE FACTORS, BRAYFIELD AND ROTHE INDEX, ROTTER'S I-E SCALE, DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE).
Contributors: North Carolina State University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Education, Adult and Continuing.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The major purpose of this investigation was to examine the relationships between hospital nurses' job satisfaction and selected demographic and situational variables. A secondary purpose was to determine the relationship between levels of job satisfaction and 10 of the 14 Herzberg Motivator-Hygiene factors, i.e., the job content factors of recognition, achievement, growth possibility, responsibility, and work itself, and the job context factors of salary, interpersonal relations, supervision, organizational policy, and working conditions.

A descriptive survey research design was used to gather data from a proportionate, systematic random sample representative of 15 percent of the population or 683 nurses. A mailed questionnaire elicited a 45 percent response. The data collected were subjected to chi-square analysis, analysis of variance, and Pearson Product-Moment correlations.

Major conclusions that emerged from the findings were (1) job content and job context factors exert a positive influence on hospital nurses' job satisfaction; (2) job satisfaction among hospital nurses increases with increases in age, current position, years in current position, years of nursing experience, and years in present institution; and (3) job satisfaction is positively correlated with marital status and internal locus of control.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-09, Section: A, page: 2525.

Thesis (ED.D.)--NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY, 1985.

School code: 0155.