Organizational Environment and Nurses’ Job Satisfaction: A Study on Private Hospital in Bangladesh

This correlation-based descriptive study is designed to describe and examine the relationship between organizational environment and nurses’ job satisfaction within Bangladesh's private health care context. The study is based on different private medical colleges and hospitals in Bangladesh. Respondents are selected using a convenient sampling procedure of 139 nurses working at these hospitals and involved in caring for patients directly. Therefore, 139 responded questionnaires were used for analysis. Data was collected through face-to-face interviews in 2015. Inferential Statistics like as Exploratory Factor Analysis and Confirmatory Factor Analysis, are used to test the relationship between organizational environment and nurses’ job satisfaction. The reliability of the Organizational Environment and Nurses’ Job Satisfaction is 0.75. Descriptive statistics have been used to explain the demographic data of the respondent of those private hospitals. Factor analysis reveals that only four influential factors, Organizational Structure, Organizational Responsibility, Reward& Recognition, and Organizational Standard of the organizational environment, have a significant influence on nurses’ job satisfaction. On the contrary, four influential factors of nurse job satisfaction: Payment of Nurse, Interaction of Nurse, Task requirements, and Organizational Policy influence the organizational environment. Confirmatory factor analysis explains that only three influential factors, Organizational Structure, Organizational Responsibility, and Organizational Standard have an impact on nurse job satisfaction, and the organizational environment has been influenced by three influential factors Payment of Nurse, Interaction of Nurse, and Organizational Policy. The findings of this study suggest that the organizational climate should be employee-friendly, policies should be inspiring for nurses, nurses should be allowed to make their decision, and the organization should ensure proper evaluation and promotion of the nurses that eventually will maximize better services.