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HELPING PROFESSIONS’ JOB SATISFACTION IN THE HOSPITAL AND PRISON SYSTEMS
Nevenka Kišak Gverić
; Grigor Vitez Elementary School, Zagreb
Dalibor Doležal
orcid.org/0000-0003-1558-5905
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences
Ljiljana Mikšaj – Todorović
; University of Zagreb Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences
Irena Habazin
; Vinogradska Nursing School, Zagreb
Sažetak
Although some countries conduct national surveys of job satisfaction, research that focuses on specific professions is still scarce, insufficient and non-systematic. Although there is some research on job satisfaction in the helping professions in the hospital and the prison systems, the research that provides insight on the differences between them is scarce.
The aim of this paper is to examine the job satisfaction in the helping professions (social pedagogues, therapists, speech therapists, social workers, psychologists and educators), between those who work in the hospital and the prison system, and to determine the differences between them.
The study utilizes a sample of 180 employees in these professions (112 from the hospital system, and 68 from the prison system). The data were collected using the Job-Satisfaction Survey (Spector, 1985) questionnaire, and analysed by means of descriptive statistics and t-test for independent samples based on previously obtained factors from this questionnaire.
Results show that some aspects of the job make respondents in both groups equally satisfied (for example, relationship with superiors and co-optation) or dissatisfied (salary), while the (dis)satisfaction differs significantly in some aspects, with the prison system employees displaying less work satisfaction.
Bearing in mind that these differences can be attributed to certain objective characteristics of the jobs in different systems as well as to the subjective characteristics of helping professionals, future research should focus on providing more information regarding these characterstics.
Ključne riječi
job satisfaction; helping professions; hospitals; prisons
Hrčak ID:
148695
URI
Datum izdavanja:
25.11.2015.
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