Factors Affecting Job Satisfaction Among Agency-Employed Home Health Aides

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seokwon Yoon ◽  
Janice Probst ◽  
Christine DiStefano
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Home Health Aides

Job Satisfaction: How Do Social Workers Fare with Other Interdisciplinary Team Members in Hospice Settings?

2004 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 327-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Monroe ◽  
Roenia Jittaun DeLoach
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Distributive Justice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Analysis Of Variance ◽  
Spiritual Care ◽  
Interdisciplinary Team ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Home Health Aides

The purpose of this study was to investigate job satisfaction among hospice interdisciplinary team members, which included social workers, nurses, and other professionals (i.e., home health aides and spiritual care providers.) Interdisciplinary team members ( N = 76) from four hospices in the midwest participated in the study. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that significant differences in satisfaction resulted in the areas of distributive justice, autonomy, and opportunity between social workers, nurses, and other interdisciplinary team members.

The Effect of Organizational Values, Work-Related Compensation, and Benefits on Job Satisfaction of Home Health Aides

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Seokwon Yoon ◽  
M. Mahmud Khan
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Organizational Values ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Fringe Benefits ◽  
Hourly Wage ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Home Health Aides

Although the work of home health aides is very demanding physically and emotionally, they rarely receive support from peers or from the organizations for which they work. This study is aimed at examining the influence of organizational values and work-related compensation on job satisfaction of home health aides. A total of 3,377 home health aides and 1,036 home health agencies were selected from the nationally representative sample. The number of work-related fringe benefits was highly associated with job satisfaction of home health aides. Household income was found to be negatively associated with job satisfaction. Significant cross-level interaction effects revealed that hourly wage had a stronger relationship with job satisfaction when individual home health aides worked for agencies that were perceived to recognize the value of home health aides. We conclude that organizational values significantly moderate the relationship between work-related factors and job satisfaction. The findings suggest that home health care facility leaders need to recognize explicitly the value of home health workers, to provide them with additional fringe benefits so that workers feel valued and to adopt a patient assignment system that allows strengthening of patient-worker bonds for enhancing home health aides’ job satisfaction.

Job Satisfaction Among Home Health Aides

1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Royse ◽  
Surjit S Dhooper ◽  
Kim Howard
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Home Health Aides

scholarly journals We Treat Them Better Than the Family They Have: Negotiating Aide-Family Relationships in the Home Care Setting

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 571-572
Author(s):  
Emily Franzosa ◽  
Emma Tsui
Keyword(s):  
Role Conflict ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Role Ambiguity ◽  
Care Setting ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Home Health ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Home Health Aides ◽  
The Family ◽  
Better Than

Abstract Unpaid and paid care in the home are closely intertwined, but a lack of outside supervision and support often forces family and non-family caregivers to negotiate care tasks and boundaries alone, leading to role conflict and role ambiguity. This analysis drew on two qualitative studies of home health aides (S1 n = 27, S2 n =26) to explore 1) aides’ perception of their caretaking role; 2) aides’ experiences co-producing care with family members; and 3) factors affecting these relationships. Data were analyzed through grounded theory and discourse analysis. We identified three relationship dynamics between aides and family members: independent, where aides and families provided care separately; competitive, where aides and families struggled over control of care tasks; and carative, where aides considered family part of the unit of care. We propose strategies for employer agencies to better support paid and unpaid caregivers in negotiating boundaries and co-producing care.

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