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      The Relationship between Social Capital in Hospitals and Physician Job Satisfaction

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          Abstract

          Background

          Job satisfaction in the hospital is an important predictor for many significant management ratios. Acceptance in professional life or high workload are known as important predictors for job satisfaction. The influence of social capital in hospitals on job satisfaction within the health care system, however, remains to be determined. Thus, this article aimed at analysing the relationship between overall job satisfaction of physicians and social capital in hospitals.

          Methods

          The results of this study are based upon questionnaires sent by mail to 454 physicians working in the field of patient care in 4 different German hospitals in 2002. 277 clinicians responded to the poll, for a response rate of 61%. Analysis was performed using three linear regression models with physician overall job satisfaction as the dependent variable and age, gender, professional experience, workload, and social capital as independent variables.

          Results

          The first regression model explained nearly 9% of the variance of job satisfaction. Whereas job satisfaction increased slightly with age, gender and professional experience were not identified as significant factors to explain the variance. Setting up a second model with the addition of subjectively-perceived workload to the analysis, the explained variance increased to 18% and job satisfaction decreased significantly with increasing workload. The third model including social capital in hospital explained 36% of the variance with social capital, professional experience and workload as significant factors.

          Conclusion

          This analysis demonstrated that the social capital of an organisation, in addition to professional experience and workload, represents a significant predictor of overall job satisfaction of physicians working in the field of patient care. Trust, mutual understanding, shared aims, and ethical values are qualities of social capital that unify members of social networks and communities and enable them to act cooperatively.

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                Journal
                BMC Health Serv Res
                BMC Health Services Research
                BioMed Central
                1472-6963
                2009
                16 May 2009
                : 9
                : 81
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Center for Health Services Research Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Eupener Str 129, 50933 Cologne, Germany
                [2 ]Department of Medical Sociology, Institute and Polyclinic for Occupational and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne, Eupener Str 129, 50933 Cologne, Germany
                Article
                1472-6963-9-81
                10.1186/1472-6963-9-81
                2698840
                19445692
                7f654432-b783-45d5-a9df-b902d3d8c29d
                Copyright © 2009 Ommen et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

                This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

                History
                : 30 October 2008
                : 16 May 2009
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                Health & Social care
                Health & Social care

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