2016 Volume 42 Issue 4 Pages 255-264
Employee job satisfaction is strategically important to hospital organizations. However, current job satisfaction in Japanese hospital pharmacists has not been clarified. To examine the job satisfaction of hospital pharmacists, we conducted a questionnaire survey on 194 hospital pharmacists at eight hospitals in Kitakyushu-Chikuho, Fukuoka district.The job satisfaction instrument, which is structured on 12 job satisfaction facets and global job satisfaction, developed by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists was used, and each satisfaction item was evaluated using a 5-point Likert scale. A total of 154 responses were used for analysis. As a result, more than half of the hospital pharmacists reported being highly satisfied (defined as score of 4 or 5) in terms of global job satisfaction. In the multiple regression analysis with all of the facet scores as independent variables and global job satisfaction as the dependent variable, the four most important job satisfaction facets associated with global job satisfaction were Management (t-statistic 3.91), Community (3.05), Pay (2.61), and Staffing (-3.80). In the logistic regression analysis with respondent characteristics as independent variables and highly satisfied measure as the dependent variable, hospital bedsize, gender and pharmacy specialist/certified pharmacist were most often significantly associated with being highly satisfied with a job satisfaction facet.These findings may provide useful information to improve job satisfaction in Japanese hospital pharmacists.
