Factors Associated with Job Satisfaction of Nursing Educators in Middle Management Positions

• Main Author: Brewer, Marlene Harrop
• Other Authors: Kingery, Dwane
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: North Texas State University 1982
• Subjects: job satisfaction; middle management positions; nursing educators; job characteristics; Nursing school administrators > United States.; Job satisfaction.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330673/

This study is concerned with identifying the factors which produce job satisfaction and which are clearly associated with job characteristics as perceived by the nursing educators who serve in middle management positions. Following are purposes of this study: 1. To identify the actual and ideal job characteristics that are factors associated with job satisfaction, as perceived by nursing educators in middle management positions; 2. To determine the interrelationships among the job satisfaction factors that are identified with the actual and ideal job characteristics, as perceived by nursing educators in middle management positions. Responses to a three-part survey instrument, which contained sixteen independent variables, were received from 152 of a possible 292 middle manager nursing educators working in accredited baccalaureate schools of nursing.