Download or read book Examination of Job Satisfaction of Aged Care Employees written by Kennady Gustin (|e author) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The job satisfaction of nursing assistants in nursing homes has been a topic of concern and research for decades. Sustained elevated rates of turnover indicate a significant problem with job satisfaction in this field. Despite many years of research on this topic, neither the global nor the American gerontological community has reached a consensus on which factors have the most significant impact on job satisfaction. This systematic review examined eight studies regarding nursing assistants' job satisfaction in nursing homes across the United States. These studies were located by utilizing ProQuest and PsycInfo databases. Each of the articles reviewed was found in the databases mentioned above or located via chain searching reference pages of items in the databases. These studies must have taken place in the United States, pertained to the job satisfaction of nursing assistants employed by nursing homes, and must have been published in the year 2000 or later. The Job Demands Resource (JD-R) model and Work-Family Conflict theory were utilized in this study to provide context for why nursing assistant turnover rates are elevated. Developing an understanding of these turnover rates will provide facilities with an opportunity to improve the lives and work experiences of their nursing assistants by implementing changes that improve job satisfaction, such as reducing work-related strain, increasing support, and facilitating financial well-being. There is a need for current and focused reviews of nursing assistants' experiences in the United States; this review aimed to address that need.
Download or read book Retooling for an Aging America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2008-08-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprepared to meet their specific health needs. Retooling for an Aging America calls for bold initiatives starting immediately to train all health care providers in the basics of geriatric care and to prepare family members and other informal caregivers, who currently receive little or no training in how to tend to their aging loved ones. The book also recommends that Medicare, Medicaid, and other health plans pay higher rates to boost recruitment and retention of geriatric specialists and care aides. Educators and health professional groups can use Retooling for an Aging America to institute or increase formal education and training in geriatrics. Consumer groups can use the book to advocate for improving the care for older adults. Health care professional and occupational groups can use it to improve the quality of health care jobs.
Download or read book A Study of Relationships Between Knowledge of Aging and Job Satisfaction in Nurses and Care Satisfaction of Residents in a Long term Care Facility written by Kari White and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examined the relationship between job satisfaction and knowledge of the elderly among nurses in a long-term-care (LTC) facility. Additionally, the relationship between care satisfaction of residents and job satisfaction of nurses was evaluated. Nurses in a LTC facility completed a Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS) and Facts on Aging Quiz (FAQ). Residents of the facility completed the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ). All results were input in SPSS ver. 20 for analysis. Findings showed that, contrary to the research hypothesis, there was no statistically significant relationship between Palmore's FAQ and Spector's JSS. Insufficient data was collected to determine if a statistically significant relationship existed between nurses' job satisfaction and patient/client satisfaction with care. Those nurses who participated in the study proved to be satisfied with their jobs. Likewise, residents that participated in the study proved to be satisfied with the quality of care they received. These pieces of information are consistent with the hypothesized association between nurse job satisfaction and client care satisfaction though a statistical test for significance was not performed. Additional research is needed, with a larger sample size, to further examine the impact that these factors may have on each other. These findings will help porvide the LTC facility, in which the research was conducted, with ideas for creating a better working and living environment. Ideally, this study will help the facility recognize the need to better educate professional healthcare staff about aging-related issues. Such education will likely help maintain the job satisfaction among the professional staff. Such satisfaction will also, probably, help ensure that clients of the facility continue to receive quality care.
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Job Quality written by Chris Warhurst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this Handbook is to produce an interdisciplinary and international benchmark text for anyone wanting to understand job quality. Job quality matters and has long and continually done so, even if the terminology used to describe it has, and continues, to vary. Debate about the future of work and job quality in the twenty-first century centres on the impact of the new digital technologies of the putative fourth industrial revolution. This debate compounds existing concerns about the restructuring of employment and, importantly, a worrying proliferation of poor-quality jobs, often within the context of neo-liberal political-economic hegemony since the early 1980s or the economic crisis that followed the Global Financial Crisis of the late 2000s. Job quality is offered as a solution to challenges such as health, welfare, productivity, innovation, economic competitiveness, democracy and democratic participation, Bildung/cultivation, societal equality, individual and collective quality of life, and environmental sustainability. As job quality is a key factor in addressing these and the other challenges, it needs to be understood in all its complexity in terms of what it affects as well as what affects it. This Handbook draws together into a single volume: first, an explicit focus on job quality both as a significant factor in and of itself and as producing instrumental effects on a range of other processes and outcomes; second, a catalogue of the diverse range of multiple contributions and applications related to job quality; and third, the complexity and multiple interpretations of the concept of job quality. Each chapter provides distinct responses to the question of why job quality matters, coupled to a contention about for whom or for what job quality matters most. As the chapters with their respective answers and arguments attest, there are a range of ways in which job quality is relevant to an equally broad range of social, economic, and political concerns.
Download or read book Individualized Care written by Riitta Suhonen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contributed book is based on more than 20 years of researches on patient individuality, care and services of the continuously changing healthcare system. It describes how research results can be used to respond to challenges on individuality in healthcare systems. Service users’, patients’ or clients’ point of views on care and health services are urgently needed. This book describes the conceptualisation of the individualized nursing care phenomenon and the process development of the measuring instruments of that phenomenon in different contexts. It describes results from a variety of clinical contexts about individualized nursing care and explains factors associated with the perceptions and delivery of individualized nursing care from different point of views. This book may appeal to clinicians, nurses practitioners and researchers from many fields.
Download or read book Aging Job Satisfaction and Job Performance written by Olivia S. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Examination of Job Satisfaction of Staff Nurses in Acute Care Settings written by Karla Ludvigson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Handbook on Work Life Balance written by Bertolini, Sonia and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores the theoretical debate surrounding work–life balance, and provides a reflection on the opportunity to adopt multilevel research approaches and perspectives, along gender and temporal axes. The Research Handbook is an international overview of current research on work-life balance, considered in macro, meso and micro perspectives.
Download or read book Job Satisfaction written by Paul E. Spector and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1997-03-26 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distilling the vast literature on this frequently studied variable in organizational behaviour research, Paul E Spector provides the student and professional with a pithy overview of the application, assessment, causes and consequences of job satisfaction. In addition to discussing the nature of and techniques for assessing job satisfaction, the author summarizes the findings concerning how people feel towards work, including: cultural and gender differences in job satisfaction and personal and organizational causes; and potential consequences of job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Students and researchers will particularly appreciate the extensive list of references and the Job Satisfaction Survey included in the Appendix.
Download or read book Job Satisfaction and Employment Turnover of Nursing Assistants in Long term Care written by Betty S. Cottongim and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The population of the United States is aging: as the proportion of retirees to working-age population increases, the future needs of the elderly and long term care needs will require careful consideration by healthcare providers. Just as personal care dependency increases with age so does the proportion of older persons institutionalized at any point in time. As of 1990, of the 30 million persons over the age of 65, approximately 24 percent required some long-term care services (Feldstein, 1993). The majority of the elderly in long-term care can be expected to be cared for by nursing assistants who make up 45-50 percent of nursing home staff and provide 90 percent of the care (Wagnild 1988, Waxman et al. 1984). Identified in the literature has been the need to develop strategies for reducing a long-identified problem of nursing assistant employment turnover in long-term care facilities. Using Herzberg's (1959) Motivational Theory as a theoretical framework, this study evaluated the relationship between job satisfaction and turnover of employment of nursing assistants in long-term care. Utilizing a structured qualitative interview setting, a comparative correlation of employee retention and job satisfaction was examined. Appropriate demographic data were collected. Data analysis consisted of descriptive statistics for the demographic data and content analysis for the nursing assistant focus group interviews. Information obtained from the focus group interviews was utilized to identify overriding themes that provide insight to factors related to job satisfaction/dissatisfaction and reasons nursing assistants stay or leave a position. Overall the data from the investigative project identified that the work itself is the most important factor related to job satisfaction for nursing assistants. Nursing assistants need to have attachment and feelings for residents in order to do the job, These feelings of caring and self-worth contribute to job satisfaction and are closely tied to the reasons nursing assistants stay in a position and seem to out-weigh the extrinsic factors of dissatisfaction: pay and communication. However, these positive feelings aren't enough by themselves to decrease turnover of nursing assistant employment in long-term care. Issues of respect, communication and pay do have an effect on the self-esteem of nursing assistants and will ultimately outweigh the good feelings one has about the work itself. Factors related to lack of respect, poor communication and low pay were identified as important in all of the study facilities as job dissatisfiers and reasons nursing assistants would leave a position.
Download or read book Job Satisfaction in Social Services written by David A. Williamson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1996, this research study explores the job satisfaction in the social and human care workers . Previous job satisfaction research has not been ignored in this area, but that those in the mainstream of job satisfaction research in sociology have been engaged for years in the construction of models of satisfaction built almost entirely on data from business and industry.
Download or read book Enhancing Autonomy in Long term Care written by Lucia M. Gamroth and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assesses the importance of autonomy to quality of life in long-term care facilities. First addressing conceptual issues, the editors then pose such questions as: What is autonomy and what does it mean in the context of physically and/or cognitively impaired elders? What is the effect of nursing home financing and federal regulations? How does the traditional medical model, which casts residents as "patients", affect autonomy? How does the physical environment make a difference? The contributors then go on to describe six successful models of care that provide a more meaningful quality of life through promoting autonomy. Contributors include Robert and Rosalie Kane, Keren Brown Wilson, and Bart Collopy.
Download or read book The Handbook of Work Analysis written by Mark Alan Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new handbook, with contributions from experts around the world, is the most comprehensive treatise on work design and job analysis practice and research in over 20 years. The handbook, dedicated to Sidney Gael, is the next generation of Gael’s successful Job Analysis Handbook for Business, Industry and Government, published by Wiley in 1988. It consists of four parts: Methods, Systems, Applications and Research/Innovations. Finally, a tightly integrated, user-friendly handbook, of interest to students, practitioners and researchers in the field of Industrial Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management. Sample Chapter available: Chapter 24, Training Needs Assessment by Eric A. Surface is available for download.
Download or read book Quality of Care and Employee Job Satisfaction in Assisted Living nursing Homes written by Julie A. LeFeber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Diversity written by Michalle E. Mor Barak and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning Managing Diversity uses an interdisciplinary approach to provide students with an understanding of diversity from a global perspective.
Download or read book Summated Rating Scale Construction written by Paul E. Spector and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1992 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for the social scientist who must develop a rating on attitudes, values and opinions, this text provides information on the construction of more effective scales. It includes information on how to validate a scale and how to develop a summated rating scale based on classical test theory.
Download or read book Advances in Research on Age in the Workplace and Retirement written by Cort W. Rudolph and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifts in the age composition of the workforce coupled with dynamic definitions of retirement represent important issues that influence work processes and, more generally, the experience of working across one’s career. For example, redefinitions of careers and the changing nature of working have contributed to the emergence of distinct forms and patterns of work experiences across the prototypical work lifespan. Likewise, older individuals are increasingly delaying retirement in favor of longer-term labor force participation. The study of age and work, and work and retirement by industrial, work, and organizational (IWO) psychologists and scholars of human resources management and organizational behavior (HR/OB) has recently proliferated in part as a result of such trends, along with the recognition that age-related processes are important indicators of various proximal (e.g., job attitudes, work behaviors, work motives, and wellbeing) and distal outcomes (e.g., sustainable employability, climates for aging, and firm performance) at various levels of abstraction in modern work environments. Recent theoretical advances have suggested that age, along with individual psychological factors and various contextual influences can jointly influence work outcomes that contribute to long-term employment success, including work performance, job attitudes, work orientations, and motivations. Similar theoretical developments concerning retirement have postulated individual and contextual elements that drive success in the transition from career and work roles to non-work and leisure as well as post-retirement bridge employment roles. In this Research Topic, we aim to curate a collection of papers that are representative of current trends and advances in thinking about and investigating the role of age in workplace processes and the changing nature of retirement. Our hope is to showcase various contemporary ideas and rigorous empirical studies as a means to inform broader thinking and to support enhanced theorizing and organizational practice regarding these processes.
