Propensity to connect with others, social networks and job satisfaction of nurses

The research examines the relationship between social networks and job satisfaction. Social networks serve as a social resource which affects job satisfaction through the provision of supportiveness. The characteristics of nursing are life-related and emotion-consumed job. It is argued that both advice and friendship networks are important in a work setting. The employees in the department of nursing will take on-job training. It is the opportunity for them to complete the survey questionnaire, which is administered by the research team during the course. To derive the participants' advice and friendship networks, they were asked to list the names of everyone whom they consulted when they needed to know something about work and whom they considered to be their friends. Job satisfaction and the propensity to connect with others were measured, too. The results showed that propensity to make acquaintance and outdegree were correlated with job satisfaction. Most of all, the advice and friendship networks were overlapped. It was concluded that the human resource professional shoud care about both formal and informal relationships.

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