THE INFLUENCE OF POWER OF NURSE EXECUTIVES, PROFESSIONALISM OF NURSING STAFF, AND ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE ON NURSING STAFF JOB SATISFACTION.
Contributors: Boston University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: Nursing staff job satisfaction is affected by multiple interpersonal and organizational factors. The purpose of this study was to examine the patterns of relationships between the power of nurse executives, the level of professionalism of nursing staff, the professionalism of the organizational climate, and nursing staff job satisfaction.

A non-probability, convenience sample of two hundred thirty-five registered nurses was obtained from three hospitals in metropolitan Boston. Nurse executives and their administrative peers also participated in the study.

Data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, Pearson product moment correlations, and a combination of stepwise and hierarchical multiple regression.

Major findings indicated a positive and significant relationship between the professionalism of the organizational climate, the use of referent and expert power by the nurse executive, years of nursing practice, and nursing staff job satisfaction. An unanticipated finding of considerable interest was a negative relationship between the level of professionalism of nursing staff and job satisfaction. The horizontal power of the nurse executive was not a significant predictor of nursing staff job satisfaction. The relationship of the interaction of professionalism with the referent and expert power of the nurse executive was not tested due to the opposite effects of the components of this variable on nursing staff job satisfaction.

These results support the complex nature of the relationships between selected factors that influence nursing staff job satisfaction. The study has implications for practicing nurse executives, nurse educators and nurse researchers.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-04, Section: B, page: 1489.

Thesis (D.N.SC.)--BOSTON UNIVERSITY, 1985.

School code: 0017.