AIM To identify the key favorable issues, showing a high degree of job satisfaction, and also the adverse issues that may affect the work performance among medical assistants. MATERIAL AND METHODS This research is a type of inquiry-based opinion survey carried out by administering a self-managed, anonymous questionnaire, consisting of five sections with 25 items. The study group included 175 ...

OBJECTIVE To examine factors affecting the job satisfaction of registered nurses (RNs). BACKGROUND A growing recognition of job dissatisfaction among RNs in South Carolina hospitals has contributed to current problems with recruitment and retention. If administrators identify factors influencing RNs' job satisfaction in hospitals and implement strategies to address these factors, RN turnover ...

OBJECTIVES Most previous studies of job strain and cardiovascular risk have been limited to adult data. It remains unclear whether this association might be explained by factors already present before entering the labour market. This study examined whether pre-employment family factors and participants' own dispositional factors contribute to the relationship between job strain and carotid inti...

Introduction: Job satisfaction is one of the most widely discussed issues in the organisational behaviour, personnel and human resource management. This study was conducted to determine the level of job satisfaction among medical teaching faculty of a teaching institution. An attempt was made to determine the factors that influence the job satisfaction of the faculty members. Materials and Meth...

The pressure that educators are experiencing to educate more students, with more challenges, to higher levels of learning than any time in the past is significantly changing their working conditions. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of a national sample of teachers of students who are deaf or hard of hearing to ascertain their overall job satisfaction as well as to ident...

INTRODUCTION Working in a healthy work environment is the ultimate goal of every employee. Dentistry is a stressful career, and the reasons for dissatisfaction are numerous. AIM The aim of this study was to determine the factors of work satisfaction in dental professionals of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 134 dental professionals selected randomly f...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study are to examine differences in job satisfaction among professional groups including nurses, allied hospital professionals, social workers, and elementary school teachers, and to identify specific characteristics of job satisfaction of nurses. METHODS The study design was a cross-sectional exploratory study using secondary data analysis with the 2009 Graduates...

BACKGROUND This study assessed the associations of short-term employment, physical and psychological occupational demands, and job dissatisfaction with alcohol abuse (using the Audit-C test) and daily smoking among working French men and women in different age groups. METHODS The sample included 13,241 working people, 18-29, 30-39, and 40-59-years-old, randomly selected in France and intervie...

INTRODUCTION The lack of rural nursing studies makes it impossible to know whether rural and urban nurses perceive personal and organizational factors of job satisfaction similarly. Few reports of rural nurse job satisfaction are available. Since the unprecedented shortage of qualified rural nurses requires a greater understanding of what factors are important to retention, studies are needed. ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the level of job satisfaction among physiotherapists, and to identify the best predictors of job satisfaction. A self-administrated questionnaire survey was conducted in September 2003. Data were collected from 198 physiotherapists in 13 health care settings (five university hospitals, seven government hospitals, and one municipality hospital) located in...