Abstract
The objective of this theory development study was to propose a predictive model of subjectively perceived organisational culture with biographic variables, job satisfaction and personality variables as predictors. A countrywide sample of convenience drawn from a population of nurses (N = 3456) of a private healthcare service provider in South Africa yielded 713 completed questionnaires (response rate = 21%) that were obtained in multiple sessions. Goal directedness, a dimension of organisational culture, was significantly positively related to all three measures of satisfaction (imposed personal demands, extrinsic satisfaction and intrinsic satisfaction), while internal climate was significantly negatively related to the three satisfaction dimensions. Other significant findings are reported on.
Highlights
The current study was conducted among nurses of a private healthcare service provider operating 42 hospitals and employing about 12 000 people
The inter-correlations of the variables show that the three scales of job satisfaction (Imposed Personal Demands, Intrinsic Satisfaction and Extrinsic Satisfaction) are positively related (+0,537; +0,381 and +0,480 respectively) to perceived Goal Directedness, but negatively related (-0,218; -0,310 and -0,492 respectively) to the perceived Internal Climate of organisational culture
The following variables emerged as significant predictors of Goal Directedness where 40% of the variance was explained, namely Imposed Personal Demands, Agreeableness, Self-efficacy, Extrinsic
Summary
The current study was conducted among nurses of a private healthcare service provider operating 42 hospitals and employing about 12 000 people. One would not like to see that health organisations have to close down because of the nursing shortage experienced in the health industry nationally and internationally In this regard it seems necessary to explore a wider variety of factors that may impact on a nurse’s decision to leave a particular company. Judge, Locke, Durhan and Kluger (1998) believed that factors within the individual (dispositional factors), rather than merely the context (characteristics of the situation), affect an individual’s job satisfaction It is a secondary objective of this study to determine whether personality variables mediate the relationship between job satisfaction and subjectively perceived organisational culture. Considering the impact of the current critical nursing shortage, very little research was found on whether hospitals are able to provide increased job satisfaction among clinical nurses in today’s healthcare setting
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