We conducted a cross-sectional survey among 74 community health workers in rural health houses to investigate overall job satisfaction and satisfaction with 8 aspects of the job (work itself, co-workers, management, workload, promotion, organizational structure, working conditions, and payment and benefits). Data were collected by a self-administered questionnaire based on the Job Descriptive I...

This research examined the effects of workload on three work outcomes – work exhaustion, job satisfaction, and turnover intention. Data collected from a questionnaire survey were used to test the relationships proposed in this research. The results showed that (a) workload was positively related to work exhaustion and job satisfaction; (b) work exhaustion was positively related to turnover inte...

background: occupational stress takes place in relationship between person and environment. it’s created by three major factors including characteristics personal, working conditions, relationships between them. stress is caused by psychological imbalances and has different outcomes on health. this study examined the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction in health care staff. met...

BACKGROUND Associations between shift work (SW) schedules, mental distress and job satisfaction have never been completely described. AIMS To examine gender-specific associations of SW with mental distress and job satisfaction in nurses in Hebron District, Palestine, in 2012. METHODS Detailed information on work schedules (day versus shift), socio-demographic status, mental distress (Genera...

BACKGROUND Quality of work life is one of the most important factors for human motivating and improving of job satisfaction. AIM The current study was carried out aimed to determine the relationship between quality of work life and job satisfaction in faculty members of Zahedan University of Medical Sciences. METHOD In this descriptive-analytic study, 202 faculty members of Zahedan Universi...

BACKGROUND Job satisfaction among physicians may be of importance to their individual careers and their work with patients. We lack prospective studies on whether a change in a doctor's job position influences their job satisfaction over a five-year period if we control for other workload factors. METHODS A longitudinal national cohort of all physicians who graduated in Norway in 1993 and 199...

UNLABELLED This study uses a structural equation model to examine the effects of noise on self-rated job satisfaction and health in open-plan offices. A total of 334 employees from six open-plan offices in China and Korea completed a questionnaire survey. The questionnaire included questions assessing noise disturbances and speech privacy, as well as job satisfaction and health. The results ind...

Background: Township cadres, considered as basic executors of state policy, play an important role in Chinese society. Their job satisfaction is a vital issue for township management, but there are few studies on this topic in China. The goal of this study is to analyze the relationship between occupational stress and job satisfaction, and to further examine whether psychological capital (PsyCa...

In the past, research examining the determinants of job satisfaction in programmer/analysts has focused on the relationship between characteristics of the job itself such as skill variety, task identity, task significance, autonomy, and feedback from the job and job satisfaction. This paper extends the previous research by examining the effects on job satisfaction of certain aspects of programm...

BACKGROUND Sickness absence is a considerable economic and social problem. Short-term sickness absence is known to be associated with behavioural attitudes. The correlation between sickness absence and job satisfaction has been studied infrequently and with contradictory results. AIMS This study investigated the correlation between short-term sickness absence and both global and specific job ...