OHIO NURSING FACULTY ATTITUDES TOWARD COLLECTIVE BARGAINING FOR PRACTICING NURSES AND NURSING FACULTY.
Contributors: Kent State University.
Published: 1984
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: Education, Administration.
Description: The purpose of this study was to identify the attitudes of Ohio's nursing faculty toward collective bargaining for nurses in the academic and the service settings. Additional goals of the study were to correlate identified independent variables to faculties' attitudes toward collective bargaining for nurses in the academic setting. Those variables identified for this study include perceptions of organizational climate, job satisfaction, and selected demographic indicators.

An investigator-designed Likert-type instrument which consisted of 74 items was distributed to 338 eligible faculty at 12 participating Ohio baccalaureate and higher degree nursing programs. In addition to reporting standard frequency distributions, dependent t tests and multiple regression were employed to test the relationships between collective bargaining attitudes of nursing faculty and independent variables selected for this study.

Respondents in the study could be summarized as being in slight agreement with collective bargaining for nursing faculty and for practicing nurses. The scores for the Practicing Nurse Scale were significantly higher (p < .001), however, than those of the Academic Nurse Scale for all subgroups except the union subgroup.

Only presence of a union on campus (p < .05), union membership, (p < .001), and years teaching at the university (p < .001) were significantly related to Academic Nurse Scale grand means for the entire sample. The relationships between nursing faculty attitudes toward collective bargaining and job satisfaction and perceptions of organizational climate were not clearly linear so further analysis of these data is suggested. No significant relationship (p < .05 confidence level) was found to exist between job satisfaction and collective bargaining attitudes. Individual items in the job satisfaction scale did correlate significantly for the entire sample and for various subgroups. Similar results were obtained for the other scales designed to evaluate salary equity, organizational goals influencing decision making, and locus of decision making.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-01, Section: A, page: 0032.

Thesis (PH.D.)--KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, 1984.

School code: 0101.