| Abstract |
The satisfaction that an individual draws from his work, in fact, consists of a behavior or an attitude which is connected with other important behaviors or attitudes in the workplace.
The aim of the present study is to measure the job satisfaction of those working in Community, non institutional Care services, in the Prefecture of Lasithi. The study followed a cross-sectional desighn and eligible to participate were all the employees in Community Care services, in the Prefecture of Lasithi who were associated with elderly and the dissabled. It took place durig August-September 2005.Seventy(70) employees were considered, from a total of 71(99% of the total), of which 65 were women (93% of the total) and 7 were men ( 7% of the total).The mean age was 36 years, the median 34 with range 24-63 years.
For this purpose a self administered questionnaire was used which constituted of two parts. The first part included the sociodemographic characteristics of employees and their type of employment and the second part concisted of the "Job satisfaction scale for the human services" which included 18 items and examined their intrinsic satisfaction, organizational satisfaction, and satisfaction from salary and promotion. The scale was used after being translated into Greek.
The results proved significant statistic difference to the job satisfaction among permanent and non permanent employees with respect to the intrinsic satisfaction and the satisfaction from salary and promotion.This difference was in favour of the employees with permanent type of employment. Also significant statistic difference
was found in the satisfaction from salary and promotion among the employees who worked less than 36 months.
In other parameters, that were studied, significant statistic correlation was found among non permanent employees, with respect to their intention to change employment sector, if they had the chance.
Moreover, job insecurity, financial difficulties and the existence of many service users in combination with insufficient stuff, proved to be significant problems for non permanent employees.
Employees with secondary and tertiary education were not fount to have higher expectances from their job and compulsory education employees were found more satisfied from the relationships among colleagues.
Consequently, it could be said that among the participants of the study, job insecurity negatively influences the employee’s job satisfaction and constitutes an important factor that influences the way in which employees estimate the various problems in their working place and the depth to which these employees experience them
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Επαγγελματική ικανοποίηση των εργαζομένων σε δομές και προγράμματα Κοινωνικής Μέριμνας, ανοιχτού τύπου, στους Δήμους του Νομού Λασιθίου
