JOB SATISFACTION AMONG NURSING FACULTIES IN NURSING COLLEGES OF MORANG DISTRICT

Abstract

Introduction: Job satisfaction is an employee's positive emotional response to their job or aspects of their job.It greatly determines the productivity and efficiency of human resources for health and is linked with the work environment, job responsibilities and powers, and time pressure among various health professionals. Objectives: The objective of the study is to assess the level of job satisfaction and to find out associations between levels of job satisfaction with their selected variables. Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional research design was adopted. Altogether, there were 70 teachers during the data collection period from 2019/09/16 to 2019/09/27. The institutional census method (total enumerated sampling) was used to select the campus and a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. Filled-up questionnaires were edited,cleaned,coded on a daily basis,entered into the computer system,and analyzed using SPSS software. Results: Study results showed that among the 70 respondents, more than half were 30-40 years of age group (61.4%),had master's level education (57.1%) and the majority of them were married (81.4%) and almost all of them (98.6%) were female.It is found that 58.6% of the respondents were ambivalent,37.1% were satisfied and 4.3% were dissatisfied with their job. The level of job satisfaction is somewhat statistically significant with affiliated to/constituent (p=0.056). Conclusion: From the result, it is concluded that a large proportion of respondents were ambivalent about their job. Quantitative research was carried out in this study but as job satisfaction is the intangible perception of an individual so the mixed approach would be far better.