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BACKGROUND:
In available scientific literature, the impact of organizational trust and perceived organizational support on employees’ well-being has mainly been investigated without focusing on the different targets they can refer to.
OBJECTIVES:
The aim of the study is to test the direct role of these variables as precursors of well-being, job satisfaction and turnover intentions, by distinguishing two different levels in trust and support: the first one stemming from the employees’ own team (in which employees have direct and daily interpersonal relationships, and within which they build their work experience), the second stemming from the organization itself.
METHODS:
In this study, a survey was administered to more than 1,000 employees of a Sicilian hospital. The relationships between the variables were studied through the use of hierarchical regression analysis.
RESULTS:
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CONCLUSIONS:
Distinguishing between team and organizational levels of trust and support allows to better understand the relationship between trust and support and well-being and organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction and turnover intentions. Practical implications, as well as future research, should therefore refer to the different levels of such predictors.
Topics: Intention; Interpersonal Relations; Job Satisfaction; Organizational Culture; Personnel Turnover; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 30556536
DOI: 10.23749/mdl.v110i6.7389 -
BMC Family Practice Aug 2018There has been a significant growth of the international primary health care (PHC) nursing workforce in recent decades in response to health system reform. However,... (Review)
Review
BACKGROUND
There has been a significant growth of the international primary health care (PHC) nursing workforce in recent decades in response to health system reform. However, there has been limited attention paid to strategic workforce growth and evaluation of workforce issues in this setting. Understanding issues like job satisfaction and career intentions are essential to building capacity and skill mix within the workforce. This review sought to explore the literature around job satisfaction and career intentions of registered nurses working in PHC.
METHODS
An integrative review was conducted. Electronic databases including: CINAHL, MEDLINE, Scopus and Web of Science, and reference lists of journal publications were searched for peer-reviewed literature published between 2000 and 2016 related to registered nurse job satisfaction and career intentions. Study quality was appraised, before thematic analysis was undertaken to synthesise the findings.
RESULTS
Twenty papers were included in this review. Levels of job satisfaction reported were variable between studies. A range of factors impacted on job satisfaction. Whilst there was agreement on the impact of some factors, there was a lack of consistency between studies on other factors. Four of the six studies which reported career intentions identified that nearly half of their participants intended to leave their current position.
CONCLUSION
This review identifies gaps in our understanding of job satisfaction and career intentions in PHC nurses. With the growth of the PHC nursing workforce internationally, there is a need for robust, longitudinal workforce research to ensure that employment in this setting is satisfying and that skilled nurses are retained.
Topics: Capacity Building; Career Choice; Health Workforce; Humans; Intention; Job Satisfaction; Nurses; Primary Care Nursing; Primary Health Care
PubMed: 30086722
DOI: 10.1186/s12875-018-0819-1 -
International Journal of Environmental... Nov 2021(1) Background: Shortage of skilled workers is a relevant global health care problem. To remain competitive with other professions, job satisfaction is a critical issue;...
(1) Background: Shortage of skilled workers is a relevant global health care problem. To remain competitive with other professions, job satisfaction is a critical issue; however, to date, there are no data available on the German EMS. This study aims to perform a statistical analysis of job satisfaction and performance orientation and to identify risk factors for low job satisfaction of paramedics in the German EMS. (2) Methods: Data were collected from 2590 paramedics through a nationwide cross-sectional survey, using the job satisfaction questionnaire by Neuberger and Allerbeck and the performance orientation questionnaire by Hippler and Krüger. Descriptive and regression statistical analysis were performed. (3) Results: The participants scored significantly lower than the reference sample on job satisfaction, with "organization and management" and "payment" being the lowest rated subscales. Around 9% of employees feared losing their jobs. While work attitude toward performance and success enhancement was high, fear of failure was also common. (4) Conclusions: Job satisfaction of paramedics in the German EMS is below that of the reference sample. Discontent with payment and organizational issues is common. Performance orientation is high, but fear of failure is frequent. Current and future efforts that aim at an attractive working environment should reflect on these findings.
Topics: Allied Health Personnel; Cross-Sectional Studies; Emergency Medical Services; Emergency Medical Technicians; Humans; Job Satisfaction; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 34886189
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182312459 -
International Journal of Environmental... Dec 2022The study aimed to explore the associations between the psychosocial and organizational factors, job satisfaction, and mental well-being of schoolteachers. A further aim...
The study aimed to explore the associations between the psychosocial and organizational factors, job satisfaction, and mental well-being of schoolteachers. A further aim was to examine whether job satisfaction mediated the relationship between these factors and mental well-being. A cross-sectional design was used to collect data using a self-reported questionnaire. Six hundred and nine schoolteachers were included in the final analyses. The relationships between the variables were tested in a path analysis model. The data fit the hypothesized model well. The results demonstrated that organizational justice, efficacy beliefs, and school climate were significantly associated with job satisfaction and that the relationships between these variables and mental well-being were mediated by job satisfaction. The findings have implications for programs targeted at promoting teachers' well-being.
Topics: Humans; Job Satisfaction; Cross-Sectional Studies; Organizational Culture; Social Justice; Mental Health; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 36612912
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph20010593 -
Soins; La Revue de Reference Infirmiere 2020
Topics: Humans; Job Satisfaction; Organizational Culture
PubMed: 32563497
DOI: 10.1016/S0038-0814(20)30036-0 -
Frontiers in Public Health 2021The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of job control in relation to mental workload and job satisfaction of healthcare workers. This...
The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of job control in relation to mental workload and job satisfaction of healthcare workers. This cross-sectional study was carried out on 480 nurses, midwives, and administrative workers in four educational hospitals of Ardabil, Iran. Research tools were included demographic information questionnaire, NASA-TLX questionnaire, job description index (JDI) questionnaire and job control inquiry. Compared with administrative workers, mental workload of nurses and midwives was significantly higher and likewise mental workload of nurses was significantly difference compared to midwives ( < 0.001). Nurses and midwives had substantially higher job satisfaction than administrative workers ( < 0.001). Also, nurses and midwives had higher job control than administrative workers ( < 0.001 and = 0.002, respectively). Based on the designed model, the correlation between mental workload and job satisfaction was negative and significant ( = -0.22); which in the presence of job control, the relationship between the two variables of workload and job satisfaction slightly increased ( = -0.19, < 0.001). These conditions were the same in the three job groups separately. Mental workload is inversely related to job satisfaction and job control. Job control plays an important role in improving working conditions in healthcare workers.
Topics: Cross-Sectional Studies; Health Personnel; Humans; Job Satisfaction; Surveys and Questionnaires; Workload
PubMed: 34540781
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2021.683388 -
Journal of Safety Research Sep 2022As the Covid-19 pandemic affects the world, disruptions to work routines impose a psychological burden on people, and thus can affect their job performance and...
INTRODUCTION
As the Covid-19 pandemic affects the world, disruptions to work routines impose a psychological burden on people, and thus can affect their job performance and well-being. We conducted an empirical study to explore the links between the experience of Covid-19 and workers' safety behaviors and well-being outcome of job satisfaction.
METHOD
Structural equation modelling (SEM) with a sample of 515 safety workers was conducted to simultaneously test the links among these constructs.
RESULTS
Experience of Covid-19 was associated with lower employee job satisfaction, explained by higher psychological uncertainty and decreased perception of managerial commitment to safety. Notably, contrasting pathways from experience of Covid-19 to safety behaviors were found. On the one hand, higher psychological uncertainty caused by the pandemic was associated with lower perceptions of managerial safety commitment; and lower perceived managerial safety commitment was linked to reduced safety compliance and safety participation. On the other hand, experience of Covid-19 in this study showed unexpected positive direct links with safety behaviors, which might be explained by workers' enhanced safety knowledge, motivation, and status of mindfulness due to Covid-19 related safety instructions and communications.
CONCLUSIONS
This exploratory study helps to deepen the understanding of workplace safety and well-being in the context of pandemic and in times of uncertainty.
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
The practical insights are useful for applying appropriate strategies for managing the Covid-19 crisis, coping with uncertainties, and building a healthier and safer workplace in the long run.
Topics: COVID-19; Humans; Job Satisfaction; Pandemics; Uncertainty; Workplace
PubMed: 36031244
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2022.05.008 -
Nurse Education in Practice Oct 2022To explore challenges and stressors experienced by rural and remote area nurses and identify any interventions that aided in decreasing stress and increasing job... (Review)
Review
AIM
To explore challenges and stressors experienced by rural and remote area nurses and identify any interventions that aided in decreasing stress and increasing job satisfaction.
BACKGROUND
Demand for a generalist nursing workforce in rural and remote locations exposes nurses to the same conditions as people residing there: higher mortality rates and higher incidence of chronic diseases and inadequacies in accessing health services.
DESIGN
Christmals and Gross's integrative review framework was used with specified inclusion and exclusion criteria. Four databases were searched with no date limits. Only Australian studies were searched as international scope of practice differences for nurses could have distorted findings.
FINDINGS
Eighteen studies identified three broad themes: access to education; isolation (geographical, professional and personal) and recognition of role.
DISCUSSION
Interlinked themes showed positives and negatives from differing viewpoints. Ambivalence to education stemmed from inadequate exposure to learning and was linked with geographical isolation. Isolation was found to be less of a challenge to nurses who had an existing emotional connection with the community.
CONCLUSION
The themes identified were recurrent and interconnecting. The benefits of working in small rural and remote communities are being used as a driver for recruitment. These benefits include higher wages, providing a sense of belonging and allowing nurses to work to their full scope and develop generalist nursing skills. The geographical isolation generates challenges through inequality in access to education and professional support, working outside their scope of practice, safety and vulnerability that comes with living remotely and adapting to extreme weather conditions.
TWEETABLE ABSTRACT
What are the challenges and enablers of rural and remote working and living that influence job satisfaction for rural and remote area nurses in Australia?
Topics: Australia; Humans; Job Satisfaction; Nursing Staff; Rural Health Services; Rural Population
PubMed: 36162301
DOI: 10.1016/j.nepr.2022.103454 -
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health Dec 2023Job satisfaction plays an important role for the life quality and health of working individuals. While studies have shown that self-reported mental health conditions...
AIMS
Job satisfaction plays an important role for the life quality and health of working individuals. While studies have shown that self-reported mental health conditions such as stress, anxiety and depression are associated with job satisfaction, a large population-based study exploring and comparing self-reported physician posed diagnosed conditions and their association with job satisfaction and job tenure is missing. This study addresses the gap along with exploring the impact of the neurotic personality trait and other possible contributing factors.
METHODS
Sixteen mental health disorders diagnosed by physicians, categorised into four major groups were investigated in relation to employment status (108,711 participants) and in relation to job satisfaction and job tenure (34,808 participants). Analyses were performed using linear regression adjusted for age, sex, townsend deprivation index, body mass index, education, physical activity, work hours and neuroticism.
RESULTS
Neurotic and stress disorders, eating disorders and other mental health disorders were strongly associated with lower job satisfaction and shorter job tenure in both unadjusted and adjusted analyses. Neuroticism was strongly linked to job satisfaction but was not associated with job tenure.
CONCLUSIONS
Topics: Humans; Job Satisfaction; Mental Health; Cohort Studies; Biological Specimen Banks; Mental Disorders; United Kingdom
PubMed: 36016477
DOI: 10.1177/14034948221119639 -
BMC Psychology Nov 2022Job satisfaction is the persons' feeling about their job and if personnel have not good feel to his work, can destroy all plans, intentionally or unintentionally. The...
BACKGROUND
Job satisfaction is the persons' feeling about their job and if personnel have not good feel to his work, can destroy all plans, intentionally or unintentionally. The present research aims to investigate and compare job satisfaction in the employees and therapists of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers versus Health centers in 9 provinces of Iran.
METHODS
All employees of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers were included from Fars, Bushehr, Tehran, Isfahan, South Khorasan, Kurdistan, Kermanshah, Kerman, and Yazd provinces as case group and 103 staffs of similar Health centers selected with the same ratio as the staffs of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers as control samples and answered to Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ).
RESULTS
50.5% of Health centers employees and 54% of Voluntary, Counseling and Testing Centers employees had high job satisfaction. The highest satisfaction levels were reported in Fars and Kurdistan provinces and the lowest satisfaction levels were reported in Kermanshah and Bushehr.
CONCLUSION
According to the findings, in the Iranian treatment centers, the employees' satisfaction were at the same level regardless of their position and workplace. Also, the eastern and western regions of the country reported higher satisfaction score than the southern and central regions.
Topics: Humans; Job Satisfaction; Iran; Workplace; Counseling; Surveys and Questionnaires
PubMed: 36348397
DOI: 10.1186/s40359-022-00972-9