title: Organisational climate as a cause of job dissatisfaction among nursing staff in selected hospitals within the Mpumalanga Province.
abstract: This article focuses on a study conducted with the purpose of exploring and describing the organisational climate as a cause of job dissatisfaction among nursing staff in selected hospitals within the Mpumalanga Province. The major objectives were to determine what organisational climate encompasses; ascertain which factors related to organisational climate can cause dissatisfaction among nurses; determine whether there is a difference in the way nursing management and the nursing staff perceive the existing organisational climate; and make recommendations for health service managers to improve the organisational climate in order to facilitate greater job satisfaction among the nursing staff. A quantitative approach with an exploratory and descriptive design encompassing the survey method was used. A questionnaire was applied as the data collection instrument and was distributed to 140 respondents. The results indicated that the nursing management and the nursing staff were content with the intrinsic factors of their jobs, but were dissatisfied with the extrinsic factors of the organisational climate. The outcome of this research affirms that there are extrinsic factors within the organisational climate that affect the nursing management and the nursing staff adversely. Recommendations were made to promote job satisfaction in selected public hospitals within the Mpumalanga province.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Studies, University of South Africa.
authors.forename: C S P
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Lephoko
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Bezuidenhout
authors.forename: J H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Roos
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology; D002322:Career Mobility; D015984:Causality; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D006272:Health Facility Environment / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D009013:Morale; D009042:Motivation; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012944:Social Support; D013019:South Africa; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology