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Attitudinal Militancy Amongst Australian Nurses
Author(s) -
Gray David E.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1984.tb00778.x
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , project commissioning , psychology , work environment , health care , work (physics) , publishing , sample (material) , social psychology , political science , engineering , law , mechanical engineering , chemistry , chromatography
During the last decade there has been a significant increase in industrial conflict among health‐care workers in many Western health‐care systems. This study examined the effects of personal characteristics, work routinisation and job satisfaction on attitudinal militancy among a sample of Australian nurses. The results of the study indicated that job satisfaction was the most important factor influencing attitudinal militancy. Job satisfaction was also found to be an important intervening variable in mediating the effects of personal characteristics and routinisation on attitudinal militancy.