Relationships between personal factors, job involvement, organizational climate, and quality of work life of staff nurses, regional hospital and medical centers, southern region
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study personal factors, job involvement, organizational climate, and quality of work life of staff nurses, to investigate the relationships between personal factors, job involvement, organizational climate, and quality of work life of staff nurses, and to derive a predictive equation quality of work life of staff nurses, regional hospital and medical centers, Southern region, from predict variables which were personal factors, job involvement, and organizational climate. The sample consisted of 295 staff nurses who were selected by multi-stage sampling technique. The research instruments were personal factors questionnaire, job involvement questionnaire, organizational climate questionnaire, and quality of work life questionnaire. The content validity were established. The reliability by Cronbach's alpha coefficients were .82, .93, and .95, respectively. The data were anlayzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's product moment correlation, the coefficients of contingency, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The major findings were as follows: 1. Job involvement, organizational climate, and quality of work life of staff nurses in Regional Hospital and Medical Centers, Southern region, were at high level. 2. Job involvement and organizational climate were positive significantly related to quality of work life of staff nurses, at .05 level. Age, status, and income were not related to quality of work life of staff nurses. 3. Variables which significantly predicted quality of work life of staff nurses, at .05 level, were organizational climate and job involvement. The prediction accounted for 58.4 percent of the variance (R[superscript 2] = .584). The standardized score function was as follows: Quality of work life = .647 organizational climate + .197 job involvement