SELECTED RELATIONSHIPS AMONG DEMOGRAPHIC, CAREER, ORGANIZATION, JOB SATISFACTION, AND JOB ATTACHMENT VARIABLES FOR DIRECTORS OF NURSING IN NURSING HOMES.
Contributors: Illinois State University.
Published: 1985
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Education, Administration.; Health Sciences, Health Care Management.
Description: The problems of this study were to determine the relationship of job satisfaction and job attachment to selected demographic, career, and organization variables and to determine the relationship of job attachment to job satisfaction of directors of nursing in Illinois nursing homes.

There were 24 independent variables used in the data analysis. The two demographic variables were age and marital status. The four career variables were highest level of education, salary, job alternatives, and job security. There were 17 organization variables. The two dependent variables were job satisfaction and job attachment. Job satisfaction was used as a dependent or an independent variable depending on the research question studied.

The data were analyzed using statistical procedures described in the User's Guide: SPSS('X) (1983). The statistical procedures used were reliability tests, basic descriptive statistics, correlational procedures, multiple regression analyses, oneway analysis of variance, and t-tests. An .05 level of significance was used.

From the results of this study, the following conclusions were reached: (1) Directors of nursing in nursing homes are most likely to be recruited from within the long-term care system. (2) Nurses who are males and members of a minority group are underrepresented as directors of nursing in nursing homes. (3) Directors of nursing in nursing homes chose their positions and continue in their positions for reasons which are related to their role as nurses rather than for reasons which are related to family, work group, job market, or career aspirations. (4) Directors of nursing in nursing homes do not perceive their present positions as a step in a career ladder. (5) The long-term care system does not foster a career ladder for directors of nursing in nursing homes. (6) If directors of nursing in nursing homes who attain higher levels of education are to be retained in the long-term care system, then strategies for maintaining their job attachment must be devised. (7) Career variables are more useful than either demographic or organization variables in predicting the job satisfaction of directors of nursing in nursing homes. (8) Career variables are more useful than either demographic or organization variables in predicting the job attachment of directors of nursing in nursing homes. (9) Of all the independent variables studied, job security is most highly related to job satisfaction and job attachment. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-12, Section: A, page: 3557.

Thesis (ED.D.)--ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, 1985.

School code: 0092.