Management style, job satisfaction, personal investment, and employee needs: a health care workers survey
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Authors
Garcia, Maya
Issue Date
2001
Type
Capstone
Language
en
Keywords
Psychology
Alternative Title
Abstract
This inferential study surveyed 50 subjects who were health care employees in four different clinics in one large HMO in the San Francisco Bay Area. There were 47 women and three men ranging from 24 to 63 years of age. These health care employees filled out a researcher developed survey designed to measure job satisfaction, personal investment, employee needs, and perceived management style.
Three hypotheses were advanced. As predicted, employees who perceived their managers as high in participatory style had a greater level of job satisfaction than employees who saw their managers as having a low level of participatory style. Personal investment correlated positively with job satisfaction, but did not quite reach the level of statistical significance. ANOVAs with Post Hoc Comparisons were conducted for employee needs by age group and showed no effect for age.
Additional analyses included t-Tests and ANOVAs for gender and ethnicity on job satisfaction, personal investment, employee needs, management style, and age group. Results from gender and ethnicity analyses were generally not significant. Results were discussed and implications were given.