title: Nursing home administrators' level of job satisfaction.
abstract: Job satisfaction has been shown to have a direct relationship to the quality of work. Are nursing home administrators satisfied with their work? How do they compare with their counterparts in other industries? The results of this survey, using the Job Description Index (JDI) and the Job in General (JIG) scale as published by Bowling Green State University, indicate that nursing home administrators have a more compressed rate of job satisfaction than their counterparts in other industries. They focus their dissatisfaction on their coworkers and pay. They demonstrate dissatisfaction by rotating their positions at a rate of every 31 months. This suggests some significant problems in the development and maintenance of quality care and some areas that could be addressed to raise the level of satisfaction among nursing home administrators.
authors.affiliation: Health Services Administration, Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. bmurphy@mtmercy.edu
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Murphy
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006270:Health Facility Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D012866:Skilled Nursing Facilities; D014481:United States