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Job enrichment, work motivation, and job satisfaction in hospital wards: testing the job characteristics model
Author(s) -
KIVIMÄKI M.,
VOUTILAINEN P.,
KOSKINEN P.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2834.1995.tb00086.x
Subject(s) - job satisfaction , job enrichment , job attitude , job performance , nursing , nursing management , job design , work (physics) , personnel psychology , work motivation , psychology , job dissatisfaction , medicine , applied psychology , social psychology , mechanical engineering , engineering
This study investigated work motivation and job satisfaction at hospital wards with high and low levels of job enrichment. Primary nursing was assumed to represent a highly enriched job, whereas functional nursing represented a job with a low level of enrichment. Five surgical wards were divided into these two categories based on the structured interviews with head nurses. Work motivation and job satisfaction among ward personnel were assessed by a questionnaire. The ward personnel occupying highly enriched jobs reported significantly higher work motivation and satisfaction with the management than the personnel occupying jobs with a low level of enrichment.