A Study of Nurses' Job Satisfaction: The Relationship to Organizational Commitment, Perceived Organizational Support, Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and Level of Education

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of nurses' job satisfaction to organizational commitment, perceived organizational support, transactional leadership, transformational leadership, and level of education. Whereas previous research had explored these constructs separately, this study investigated two distinct paths to job satisfaction, organizational commitment, and perceived organizational support. The analytical procedure of multiple regression was utilized to determine the predicting strength among job satisfaction and the independent variables: organizational commitment, perceived organizational support, transactional and transformational leadership behavior, and nurses’ level of education. The researcher chose randomly four nursing homes from a total of 53 Medicare/Medicaid certified nursing homes located in Miami-Dade County. The participants were randomly chosen from a list of nursing staff provided by each facility. Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient revealed that positive correlation existed between the dependent variable and the following independent variables. Of the five independent variables, a multiple regression analysis indicated that organizational support was most strongly related to job satisfaction. This study provides new support to previous research about the importance of nurses’ commitment and satisfaction for organizational effectiveness and performance.