Factors Influencing Job Satisfaction and Intention to Leave the Job Among Nurses In Governmental Health Facilities In Bahir Dar North West Ethiopia ,2016
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2016-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Back ground: nursing is one of the stressful jobs in health sector. Job satisfaction is an essential element
for the maintenance of the workforce of any organization. However, developments of coping strategies
demand a clear understanding of workplace variables that either motivates nurses to remain employed or
lead them to leave their current jobs. However, there is a scare of data about this in Ethiopia spatial in the
study area.
Objective: - The aim of the study was to assess factors influencing job satisfaction and intention to leave
among nurses in governmental health facilities in Bahir Dar administrative city, North West Ethiopia,
2016.
Methods: - An institutional based cross sectional study was conducted among nurses working in
governmental health facilities in Bahir Dar with systematic random sampling technique to fulfill the main
objective of this study. Data was collected by using self-administered structured questionnaire and entered
into Epi data version 3.1 and then exported, cleaned & analyzed using Statistical Package for Social
Science (SPSS) version 21. And also descriptive analysis frequency and percentile were used to present
results. To determine association between nominal variables such as socio-demographic variables and
nursesā level of satisfaction bivariate and multiple logistic regression were computed.
Result: - nurses overall level job satisfaction and intention to leave the job were 43.6% and 60.9%
respectively. The regression analysis showed that achievement, advancement, recognition at work, working
security, working condition, and
organization policy
were significantly associated with the overall
satisfaction and intention to leave (p<=0.05).
Conclusion: majority of the participants had low level of satisfaction and high level of intention to leave.
Different factors affect job satisfaction and intention to leave such as achievement, advancement,
recognition at work, organization policy, working condition and working security.
Key words:
-job
satisfaction, motivation, hygiene, nursing profession, intention to
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leave.
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Job satisfaction,, Motivation, Hygiene, Nursing profession, Intention to VII leave