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Assessing Job Satisfaction among Saudi Arabian Nurses: Impact on Recruitment and Retention
The importance of nurses' job satisfaction can be assessed in accordance with its implication on health care quality, national workforce situation, but also with management practices. One of the most important implications refers to Saudi Arabian nurses' job satisfaction impact on recruitment and retention practices. This research proposal advances a model for assessing job satisfaction and its relationship with nurses' decision to stay on the job or search for more satisfactory jobs elsewhere. In addition to this, the research proposal focuses on how hospital managers can be interviewed in order to provide significant insight on best practices regarding recruitment and retention in the nursing field.
Contents
Background of the Study
Purpose of the Study
Problem Statement
Research Objectives
Research Questions
Limitations of the Study
Significance of the Study
Literature Review
Theoretical framework
Research hypotheses
Research Methodology
Study Plan
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
Reference list
Background of the Study
Organizations in the public and private fields rely their success and performance on technical, financial, and human resources. Each resource plays an important role in implementing their strategy and provides certain types of benefits. Human resources represent the most important resource that organizations make use of in their attempt to reach their objectives. It is important to focus on employees' job satisfaction as this is an important factor that affects productivity, costs, and organizational practices.
This area is of great importance to the Saudi Arabian nursing field because of the implication it has on the quality of health care. This aspect should represent the focus of governmental practices, but also of those of hospital managers. The extensive research in the field provides important information on assessing Saudi Arabian nurses' job satisfaction and its impact on recruitment and retention. The information provided by several research studies somewhat differs and there is the need for more substantiation.
Purpose of the Study
This study will assess job satisfaction among Saudi nurses and its impact on recruitment and retention.
Problem Statement
In Saudi Arabia, nursing care is delivered mainly by expatriate nurses who contribute to about 70% of the nursing workforce in the Ministry of Health hospitals. This percentage even reaches 96% in the private sector (Almalki et al., 2011). However, recently efforts have been deployed by the Saudi government to retain nurses as a strategy to increase the number of Saudi nurses in nursing profession. Every year, hundreds of Saudi nurses graduate from nursing schools and join the workforce in primary health care centers, secondary hospitals, and up to tertiary hospitals across the country. Yet, it has been a persistent challenge to the Saudi government to meet the demands of nursing care. Additionally, there is evidence of high nursing job torn over among Saudi nurses (Gieter et al., 2011). Literature suggests that job dissatisfaction is identified as one recurrent factor -- among numerous factors - of intention to leave nursing profession and shown to negatively impact both recruitment and retention of Saudi nurses (Currie and Hill, 2012). In the Saudi context, little has been revealed in the literature about this issue which sets the door wide open to better understand the problem and accordingly suggest solutions.
Research Objectives
1. To identify factors contributing to Saudi nurses job dissatisfaction.
2. To assess nurses' satisfaction on overall level but also regarding different aspects of their work.
3. To develop strategies intended to enhance the number of Saudi nurses in the health care workforce as well as minimize the rate of Saudi nurses turnover.
Research Questions
1. Are Saudi nurses satisfied with their nursing career?
2. Does the level of job satisfaction indicate the intent to leave nursing career among Saudi nurses?
Limitations of the Study
The study aims to investigate job satisfaction levels among Saudi Arabian nurses in three hospitals. Although research questions, hypotheses, and questionnaire are designed in accordance with previous research, the sample of this study cannot be considered representative for the entire population of nurses in Saudi Arabia. Therefore, the study's limitations determined by its sample size recommend that the study is used in reinforcing or challenging existing areas previously addressed by other studies, and in addressing less studied...
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