title: The work-based predictors of job engagement and job satisfaction experienced by community health professionals.
abstract: Job engagement represents a critical resource for community-based health care agencies to achieve high levels of effectiveness. However, studies examining the organizational sources of job engagement among health care professionals have generally overlooked those workers based in community settings.
  
  
  
  This study drew on the demand-control model, in addition to stressors that are more specific to community health services (e.g., unrewarding management practices), to identify conditions that are closely associated with the engagement experienced by a community health workforce. Job satisfaction was also included as a way of assessing how the predictors of job engagement differ from those associated with other job attitudes.
  
  
  
  Health and allied health care professionals (n = 516) from two Australian community health services took part in the current investigation. Responses from the two organizations were pooled and analyzed using linear multiple regression.
  
  
  
  The analyses revealed that three working conditions were predictive of both job engagement and job satisfaction (i.e., job control, quantitative demands, and unrewarding management practices). There was some evidence of differential effects with cognitive demands being associated with job engagement, but not job satisfaction.
  
  
  
  The results provide important insights into the working conditions that, if addressed, could play key roles in building a more engaged and satisfied community health workforce. Furthermore, working conditions like job control and management practices are amenable to change and thus represent important areas where community health services could enhance the energetic and motivational resources of their employees.
authors: Andrew J. Noblet, BEd, PGDipBusAdmin, PhD, is Professor, Department of Management, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. E-mail: anoblet@deakin.edu.au. Amanda F. Allisey, BA, PGDip Psych, PhD, is Senior Lecturer, Department of Management, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Ingrid L. Nielsen, BA (Hons) Psych, PhD, is Professor, Department of Management, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Stacey Cotton, BA, PGDip Psych, DPsych, is Research Fellow, Department of Management, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Anthony D. LaMontagne, ScD, MEd, MA, BS, is Professor, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Kathryn M. Page, BA, PGDip Psych, DPsych, is Research Fellow, School of Health and Social Development, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia.
authors: Andrew J
authors: AJ
authors: Noblet
authors: Amanda F
authors: AF
authors: Allisey
authors: Ingrid L
authors: IL
authors: Nielsen
authors: Stacey
authors: S
authors: Cotton
authors: Anthony D
authors: AD
authors: LaMontagne
authors: Kathryn M
authors: KM
authors: Page
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001315:Australia; D003150:Community Health Workers / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008297:Male; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D017132:Workplace / Q000523:psychology