A research about job satisfaction of medical secretaries working in a public hospital in the city center of Diyarbakir, Turkey

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the level of job satisfaction among medical secretaries and to identify the major predictors that affect their complaints about work.Methods: The data were obtained from 115 medical secretaries working in a public hospital. We didn’t use any sampling method but tried to reach the whole population in the hospital. As a survey method, Spector Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS, 1985) has been used. JSS is a 36 item, nine facet scale (pay, promotion, supervision, fringe benefits, contingent rewards, operating conditions, coworkers, nature of work and communication) in order to assess employee attitudes about the job and aspects of the job. Its reliability has been measured by the Cronbach Alpha test. Employees were compared according to their gender, age, marital status, education, working status (official-employed by government/ casual staff-employed by firms), working experience (years) and working position (administrative-clinical). Descriptive statistics, significance tests and confidence tests were gained by SPSS 16.0.Results: Findings showed that gender and marital status affect satisfaction but age doesn’t play a big role. Male participants were more satisfied in terms of promotion (χ2 = 27.506, p < .001) and supervision (X2= 29.852, p < .001) facets. In terms of pay (X2 = 15.764, p < .01), fringe benefits (X2 = 24.948, p < .001), and contingent rewards (X2 = 26.396, p