Analysis Of Job Satisfaction Of Professional Nurses In Public And Private Sectors

Analysis Of Job Satisfaction Of Professional Nurses In Public And Private Sectors

Abstract

This study delved the job satisfaction of professional nursers in public and private health sectors in Anambra State. A check design was employed and a study population of 5903 comprising all professional nursers in private and public hospitals was used. commensurate stratified arbitrary slice fashion was used in opting a sample of 375 nursers for the study. Instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Data collected were anatomized using mean and standard divagation statistical tool to answer the four exploration questions and t- test statistical tool was used to test the four suppositions. Findings showed that nursers in public hospitals were satisfied from job security unlike nursers in private hospitals. nursers in public and private hospitals were satisfied from job control/ liabilities. Also, it was set up that occasion for advancement guarantees job satisfaction to nursers in public and private hospitals. Grounded on the findings, it was recommended that sanitarium operation should produce a work terrain that’s free from dissatisfiers in order that nursers would carry out their duties effectively towards the fruition of association’s thing. Many applicable areas that the present study didn’t cover were suggested for farther disquisition.

Chapter One

Preface

Background to the Study

Affair in terms of performance in any given association is a function of numerous variables which job satisfaction is one of them. Job satisfaction which is inversely understood and occasionally appertained to as “ work satisfaction ” has been similarly defined in the literature. Job satisfaction is the extent to which an hand expresses a positive exposure towards a job. It also describes how content an existent is with his or her job. Job satisfaction has also been defined as a enjoyable emotional state performing from the appraisal of one’s job, an affective response to one’s job and an station towards one’s job( Chimanikire, Mutandwa, Gadzirayi, Muzondo, & Mutandwa, 2007; Thompson & Phua, 2012). Job satisfaction is a worker’s sense of achievement and success on the job. It’s generally perceived to be directly linked to productivity as well as to particular well- being. Job satisfaction implies doing a job one enjoys, doing it well and being awarded for one’s sweats. Job satisfaction further implies enthusiasm and happiness with one’s work. Job satisfaction is the crucial component that leads to recognition, income, creation, and the achievement of other pretensions that lead to a feeling of fulfilment( Kaliski, 2007).

Job satisfaction has continued to be a major area of interest in the study of artificial and organizational psychology because of the presumed and common- sense liaison between satisfaction and other mainstream generalities.