Factors Related To Nurses’ Job Satisfaction and Performance in Private Hospitals in Samarinda City, Indonesia

Job satisfaction and performance of health workers have been examined separately, but these two aspects are rarely explored further together, especially for nurses in private hospitals. This paper aimed to provide a description of the variables related to nurses’ job satisfaction and performance in Samarinda's private hospitals. In addition, this paper also explains the direct and indirect effects of nurses’ job satisfaction and performance in Samarinda's private hospitals. The type of this research was explanatory research. The research sample was the executing nurses in Private Hospitals in Samarinda City consisting of Dirgahayu Hospital and Amarinda Medika Citra Hospital, with the total of515 nurses. The analytical method used in this research was Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). This study found that variables that directly affect the nurses’ job satisfaction and performance are: job characteristics towards organizational commitment, nurses’ job satisfaction, performance, and altruism; transformational leadership towards organizational commitment, nurses’ job satisfaction, performance, and altruism; organizational commitment towards nurses job satisfaction, and performance; altruism towards nurses’ job satisfaction, and performance, and nurses’ job satisfaction towards the performance. Meanwhile, the variables that indirectly affect the nurses’ job satisfaction and performance are: job characteristics toward job satisfaction through altruism, job characteristics toward performance through organizational commitment, transformational leadership towards satisfaction through altruism, transformational leadership towards performance through organizational commitment, organizational commitment towards performance through job satisfaction and altruism towards performance through satisfaction. Direct and indirect variables need to be strengthened to increase nurses’ job satisfaction and performance.