جامعه شناسی کاربردی (Feb 2011)
Investigating and Comparing the Relationship between Entrepreneurial Characteristics of Organizational Personnel (Male & Female) and Their Job Satisfaction
Abstract
Abstract The present study was conducted to investigate and compare the relationship between entrepreneurial characteristics and job satisfaction among male and female participant nurses. The study population consisted of the nurses working at the Kamyab Hospital in the city of Mashhad. After the collection and analysis of the data, 12 hypotheses out of the total 13 were confirmed and the main results were as follows: The Pearson correlation between entrepreneurial characteristics of the personnel and their job satisfaction turned out to be 0.578 which indicates a quite strong meaningful relationship between the two variables. For the second hypothesis, the Pearson correlation of the entrepreneurial characteristics of the female participants and their job satisfaction turned out to be 0.592 in comparison to 0.601 for the male participants, both of which showed a strong correlation between the two variables. The results of the t-test indicated that there was no meaningful difference between male and female participants in terms of their self-confidence, internal control, positive attitude, need of success, need of independence and prudence whereas a meaningful difference existed between male and female participants in terms of creativity, innovation, tendency towards economic welfare and risk-taking. The male participants enjoyed the later characteristics more than females. Furthermore, a meaningful difference was observed between the two genders in terms of the average entrepreneurial morale where male population showed a higher level compared to female participants. Also no meaningful difference was observed between the two genders in terms of their job satisfaction
