Influence of Job Characteristics on Nurse's Job Satisfaction

Abstract

Job characteristics play an important role in determining internal work motivation in designing and redesigning jobs. However, the links between job satisfaction and job characteristics remain under-researched. This study was aimed at assessing the influence of job characteristics on staff nurse's job satisfaction. It was carried out in two main hospitals affiliated to Ain-Shams University, namely Ain-Shams University and El-Demerdash Hospitals using a cross-sectional analytic research design on a convenience sample of 242 staff nurses. A self-administered questionnaire with job characteristics and job satisfaction scales was used to collect data. Data collection was from January to February 2016. The results showed that 69.0% of the nurses agreed upon the job characteristics, and 18.2% had satisfaction with their job. A significant positive correlation was found between nurses’ scores of job satisfaction and job characteristics (r=0.481). In multivariate analysis, nursing qualification was a significant negative predictor of the score of agreement upon job characteristics, while the score of job characteristics was a significant positive predictor of job satisfaction