Relationships between organizational communication climate, nursing work values, and job satisfaction of professional nurses, private hospitals, Bangkok Metropolis
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the relationships between organizational communication climate, nursing work values, and job satisfaction of professional nurses, private hospitals, Bangkok metropolis. The samples consisted of 330 professional nurses worked in patient department more than 1 year, selected by multi-stage random sampling technique. The research instruments were job satisfaction, organizational communication climate, and nursing work values of professional nurses questionnaires witch were developed by the research, judged by the panel of experts, and Cronbachs alpha coefficients of reliability were .85 .96 and .96 respectively. Statistical techniques used for data analysis were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearsons product moment correlation coefficient. The major findings were as follow: 1. Mean scores of job satisfaction of professional nurses was at a high level. ( [Χ-bar] = 4.22, SD = .34) 2. Organizational communication climate and nursing work values were positively and significantly related to job satisfaction of professional nurses, at the .01 level (r = .62 and .66) respectively