WOMEN AND THE EMPLOYEE/FRINGE BENEFIT SYSTEM: THE CASE OF REGISTERED NURSES IN NEW JERSEY.
Contributors: Columbia University.
Published: 1992
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Sociology, Public and Social Welfare.; Sociology, Industrial and Labor Relations.; Women's Studies.; Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This thesis seeks to understand how working women perceive the employee/fringe benefits they receive as part of their compensation. It assesses their needs and attitudes concerning these benefits. A sample of 325 registered nurses (all women) in New Jersey were surveyed. Factor analysis and multiple regression analysis indicate that a core group of benefits, comprehensive benefit needs, is seen as important over the course of the life cycle. Race and income adequacy account for a significant amount of the variability of the two composite dependent variables, comprehensive benefit needs and adequate benefits intrinsic to psychological well-being and security, even after the effects of the other demographic variables were partialed out. Age and main provider status also account for a significant amount of the variability of the dependent variable, adequate benefits intrinsic to psychological well-being and security, after the other demographic variables were partialed out. The results also indicate that the perceived adequacy of the benefit package in meeting individual and/or family needs is linked to the utilization of benefits by employers as mechanisms of social control.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-07, Section: A, page: 2565.

Thesis (D.S.W.)--COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, 1992.

School code: 0054.