To study the correlation between self job satisfaction and other dimensions of nurses working in public & private hospitals

Abstract

The present study was related to the job satisfaction among nurses of Himachal Pradesh working in both public and private hospitals. The main objective of the present study was to measure the level of job satisfaction among nurses in hospitals. A structured questionnaire was used to collect the data with a convenient sample size of 480 nurses (240 nurses from private and 240 from public) were taken from both public and private hospitals. In the present study, Pearson correlation technique was used to identify the correlation between self satisfaction and other dimensions of nurses working in public and private hospitals of Himachal Pradesh with the help of statistical package of social sciences (SPSS) software.Results: A positive correlation was found between job satisfaction of nurses working in public and private hospitals and other variables i.e. (Ability Utilization, Achievement, Activity, Advancement, Authority, Organizational Policies and Practices, Compensation, Co-workers, Creativity, Independence, Moral Values, Recognition, Responsibility, Security, Social Service, Social Status, Supervision-Human Relations, Supervision-Technical, Variety, Working Conditions) at the 0.01 significance level.