Job satisfaction and supervisory behavior among hospital staff nurses

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Title Job satisfaction and supervisory behavior among hospital staff nurses
Publication Type thesis
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Robinson, Valerie
Date 1984-08
Description The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction among staff nurses and supervisory behavior. The Index of Work Satisfaction was utilized to measure general levels of job satisfaction. Supervisory behavior was investigated using a questionnaire based on Fleishman's concepts of "considerate" and "structured" supervisory behavior. Full-time staff nurses at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and Cottonwood Hospital were asked to voluntarily participate. Findings indicated that the combined effects of considerate and structured supervisory behavior accounted for 38% of the variance in job satisfaction. Number of years of experience was the only demographic variable which was significant in predicting overall job satisfaction. Investigating the influence of supervisory behavior and demographic variables on the individual components of job satisfaction, it was found that supervisory behavior is the most significant and the demographic variables are significant in predicting satisfaction with the components of administration, autonomy and task requirements.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Demographic; Nursing Staff, Hospital
Subject MESH Job Satisfaction; Nursing, Supervisory
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Job satisfaction and supervisory behavior among hospital staff nurses." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Job satisfaction and supervisory behavior among hospital staff nurses." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RT 2.5 1984 R62.
Rights Management © Valerie Robinson
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier undthes,212018
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
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ID 190850
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ks6t9z
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