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Academic Staff Satisfaction with their Work: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Medical University
BACKGROUND: Employees’ work satisfaction, combined with democratic management, are important predictors of future productivity in any organisation. AIM: The aim of this study is to investigate job satisfaction in academic staff as well as the associated working environment factors, using an original...
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Republic of Macedonia
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31592284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.657 |
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author | Dimova, Rositsa Stoyanova, Rumyana Harizanova, Stanislava Tarnovska, Miglena Keskinova, Donka |
author_facet | Dimova, Rositsa Stoyanova, Rumyana Harizanova, Stanislava Tarnovska, Miglena Keskinova, Donka |
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description | BACKGROUND: Employees’ work satisfaction, combined with democratic management, are important predictors of future productivity in any organisation. AIM: The aim of this study is to investigate job satisfaction in academic staff as well as the associated working environment factors, using an original self-administered questionnaire. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using an original standardised questionnaire. It involved 370 academic staff members at one of the five medical universities in Bulgaria. The questionnaire consists of 17 items (including occupational hazards, management style, conflict solving and demographic characteristics) rated on a 5-point Likert scale. RESULTS: The results revealed that the majority of academic staff (71.7%) works in a risky environment. Employees indicate that “mental strain”, “work with chemical agents and dust” and “work with biological hazards” are the most common risk factors. Democratic leadership and cooperation are most commonly applied management styles. CONCLUSION: The instrument for the measurement of job satisfaction revealed high values of psychometric characteristics for reliability and validity. The study found a high level of satisfaction of academics with their working conditions. It is necessary to conduct similar studies periodically to detect more precisely the decrease in academic staff work satisfaction and take timely and adequate measures to improve it. |
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spelling | pubmed-67650942019-10-07 Academic Staff Satisfaction with their Work: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Medical University Dimova, Rositsa Stoyanova, Rumyana Harizanova, Stanislava Tarnovska, Miglena Keskinova, Donka Open Access Maced J Med Sci Public Health BACKGROUND: Employees’ work satisfaction, combined with democratic management, are important predictors of future productivity in any organisation. AIM: The aim of this study is to investigate job satisfaction in academic staff as well as the associated working environment factors, using an original self-administered questionnaire. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using an original standardised questionnaire. It involved 370 academic staff members at one of the five medical universities in Bulgaria. The questionnaire consists of 17 items (including occupational hazards, management style, conflict solving and demographic characteristics) rated on a 5-point Likert scale. RESULTS: The results revealed that the majority of academic staff (71.7%) works in a risky environment. Employees indicate that “mental strain”, “work with chemical agents and dust” and “work with biological hazards” are the most common risk factors. Democratic leadership and cooperation are most commonly applied management styles. CONCLUSION: The instrument for the measurement of job satisfaction revealed high values of psychometric characteristics for reliability and validity. The study found a high level of satisfaction of academics with their working conditions. It is necessary to conduct similar studies periodically to detect more precisely the decrease in academic staff work satisfaction and take timely and adequate measures to improve it. Republic of Macedonia 2019-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6765094/ /pubmed/31592284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.657 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Rositsa Dimova, Rumyana Stoyanova, Stanislava Harizanova, Miglena Tarnovska, Donka Keskinova. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/CC BY-NC/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). |
spellingShingle | Public Health Dimova, Rositsa Stoyanova, Rumyana Harizanova, Stanislava Tarnovska, Miglena Keskinova, Donka Academic Staff Satisfaction with their Work: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Medical University |
title | Academic Staff Satisfaction with their Work: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Medical University |
title_full | Academic Staff Satisfaction with their Work: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Medical University |
title_fullStr | Academic Staff Satisfaction with their Work: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Medical University |
title_full_unstemmed | Academic Staff Satisfaction with their Work: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Medical University |
title_short | Academic Staff Satisfaction with their Work: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Medical University |
title_sort | academic staff satisfaction with their work: a cross-sectional study in a medical university |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765094/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31592284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.657 |
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