Abstract:
This descriptive study was to study job security, to investigate relationships between self esteem, organizational trust, social support, and job security of nursing employees in government university hospitals and to search for the variables that could be able to predict job security of nursing employees in government university hospitals. The research subjects were 352 nursing employees in government university hospitals, selected by multistage sampling technigue. The research instruments were self esteem, organizational trust, social support, and job security questionnaires. The content validity of questionnaires were conducted, and reliability was tested by Cronbach s alpha coefficiencies which were 0.90, 0.93, 0.97 and 0.92 respectively. The data were analyzed by using percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearsons product moment correlation coefficients and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The major findings were as follows: 1. Job security of nursing employees in government university hospitals were at high level. (X-bar = 3.64, SD = 0.53) 2. There were positively significant relationships between organizational trust, head nurses social support, co-workers social support, self esteem, and job security of nursing employees in government university hospitals at .05 level (r = .715, r = .596, r = .478 and r = .377 respectively) 3. Factors significantly predicted job security of nursing employees in government university hospitals at .05 level were organizational trust, head nurses social support, co-workers social support, and self esteem. The predictive ability are accounted for 54.1% (R² = .541) of the variance. Job security = .517 (Organizational trust) + .152 (Head nurses social support) + .111 (Co-works social support) + .085(Self esteem).