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Influence Of Work Schedule And Occupational Stress On Job Satisfaction
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Usually for nurses, a 24-hour-a-day is broken into three 8-hour- work shifts as follows:
i. 7am to 2pm (day shift):
ii. 2pm to 10pm (swing or afternoon shift)’’ and
iii. 10pm to 7am (night shift).
Muchinsky
finally observes that some companies have employees run only one shift,
more so, as workers generally do not like the afternoon and night
shift. Consequently, many firms and organizations do rotate the shift on
weekly basis so as to carry all the workers along. Psychologists in
industrial settings did and still do investigate the degree to which
workers’ job satisfactions are affected by the shift work, and their
abilities to cope with these changes in work schedules, Muchinsky
(1988).
Since it is the duty of hospital workers to ensure that the
health condition of the citizens here in Nigeria is well taken care of,
the hospital workers had since adopted three shift work schedules
covering from Sunday to Saturday of every week. In order to cover all
these duties and safeguard the lives of the citizens effectively, the
shift work schedule in this organization is as follows:
(a) Morning shift, from 0600 hrs to 1400 hours;
(b) Afternoon shift, 1400 to 2200 hours; and
(c) Night shift. 2200 hours to 0600 hours.
It
should be noted at this juncture that the first workers to be initiated
to this routine were not hospital workers, or even military
personnel’s, but bakers. Industrialization and global warfare brought
shift work into the mainstream (Aveni, 1999). In other words, estimates
are that more than 25% of all workers in the U.S. and Europe are now
shift workers.
This study investigates whether the hospital workers
actually do have job satisfactions on their job; and/or experience
stress in their day to day hassles while working these shifts. Aschoff
(1978), in his work posits that shift workers experience many problems
ranging from physiological to social adjustments; stressing that most
physiological problems are associated with interruptions of the
circadian rhythm or internal biological clock; that is to say, our
bodies are “programmed†for a certain time cycle. Hence, shift works
have been observed to interrupt the cycles of eating, sleeping and
working hours; and workers on this shift therefore, tend to experience
physiological problems.
In actual fact, the hospital workers on these
shift works are mostly those on the lower ranks in the health sector.
These are the nurses, social health workers, etc.; who constitute the
life wire of the work. These groups of people are those mostly running
the shift work systems; and are equally seen on the field from time to
time. These are the same group of hospital workers seen by the general
public either in their course of attending, treating of patients, and/or
probably, while carrying out their health duties. This study therefore,
tends to investigate whether these hospital workers while carrying out
their duties, will actually experience stress.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study investigated influence of work schedule and occupational stress on job satisfaction among hospital workers in University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. Two hundred and sixty-four (264) participants were used for the study; their ages ranged from 18 to 62 years with a mean age of 33.74 years. An ex-post facto design was adopted of the study. Valid questionnaires were used for data collection which were Occupational Stress Scale developed by American Institute of Stress ... Continue reading---
