The Job Satisfaction and the Turnover Intention of Dietitians Working at Foodservice of the Correctional Institutions in Korea

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Korean J Community Nutr. 2012;17(3):321-328

Publication date (electronic) : 2012 June 30

doi : https://doi.org/10.5720/kjcn.2012.17.3.321

Department of Food & Nutrition, Andong National University, Andong, Korea.

Corresponding author: Hye-Sang Lee, Dept of Food & Nutrition, Andong National University, 388 Songchun-dong, Andong, Gyeongbuk 760-749, Korea. Tel: (054) 820-5493, Fax: (054) 823-1625, hslee@andong.ac.kr

Received 2012 April 27; Revised 2012 June 08; Accepted 2012 June 08.

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate how certain factors influence job satisfaction and turnover intention of the dietitians working at the correctional institutions. A total 47 sheets of questionnaires (complete enumeration) were distributed respectively to the dietitians during the period from March 20th to May 18th of 2008. A total of 38 questionnaires (response rate 81%) were analyzed by using SPSS (ver. 19.0). The dietitians were more satisfied with coworkers (3.63 ± 0.10) and supervision (3.19 ± 0.13) than with pay (2.97 ± 0.09) and promotion (2.55 ± 0.08). Among the job burnout dimensions, cynicism (2.58 ± 0.09) was rated higher than exhaustion (2.47 ± 0.10), while professional efficacy level (3.40 ± 0.08) was relatively high. The work dimension of job satisfaction was negatively correlated with exhaustion and cynicism dimensions of job burnout (p < 0.001), and turnover intention (p < 0.01), but positively correlated with professional efficacy dimension (p < 0.001). The co-worker dimension was negatively correlated with exhaustion and cynicism (p < 0.05) and turnover intention (p < 0.01), while the supervision, the pay, and the promotion dimension were not correlated with the job burnout and turnover intention. The turnover intention was positively correlated with exhaustion and cynicism dimensions of job burnout (p < 0.001). A stepwise regression analysis revealed that i) professional efficacy was a factor to significantly increase the work dimension of job satisfaction, ii) exhaustion and cynicism to significantly decrease the work and the co-worker dimension of job satisfaction, respectively, and iii) exhaustion to significantly increase turnover intention. The managerial efforts of the institutions could be focused on the job burnout factors to effectively increase the work dimension and the co-worker dimension of the job satisfaction.

Keywords: correctional institution; dietitian; job satisfaction; turnover intention; job burnout

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Table 1

Comparison of job satisfaction among dietitians working at the correctional institution by descriptive characteristics

1) Reliability statistics

2) Mean ± SE, A 5-point scale was used. ('5-strongly agree', '1-strongly disagree')

^*: p < 0.05, ^**: p < 0.01, ^***: p < 0.001

a, b Different superscripts mean significant differences at the alpha = 0.05 by an Duncan post-hoc test.

Table 2

Comparison of job burnout and turnover intention among dietitians working at the correctional institution by descriptive characteristics

1) Reliability statistics, 2) Mean ± SE, A 5-point scale was used. ('5-strongly agree', '1-strongly disagree')

Table 3

Correlation coefficients between job burnout / the turnover intention / general characteristics and job satisfaction / the turnover intention among dietitians working at the correctional institution

^*: < 0.05, ^**: < 0.01, ^***: < 0.001

Table 4

Prediction of the job satisfaction and the turnover intention scores using regression model among dietitians working at the correctional institution

^*: < 0.05, ^**: < 0.01, ^***: < 0.001