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CHAPTER 1THE PROBLEMIntroduction
Interest in the concepts of job satisfaction has grown in recent years because of their efficacy on work commitment, and their basicimportance to the understanding of a worker’s behavior and thecontinuous effective operations of organizations.In the Philippines, nurses have been constantly exposed toconsiderable internal and external organizational issues which couldhave negative effects on their level of job satisfaction and workcommitment. Several literature on nursing have raised the issues onheavy workload, poor working conditions, meager compensationpackages, poor interpersonal relationships, weak leadership, non-recognition of exemplary work, and lack of opportunities for careergrowth as possible major factors of work stress and dissatisfaction. These issues may serve as possible causes for nurses to reconsider theirlong-range work options, and lower their work commitment.In spite of an average of 600,000 college students enrolling innursing courses every year, making up 25% of the total college enrollees,the nursing sector of the Philippines is incurring a shortage of nurses(Solmerin, 2007). This could be the result of the exodus of nurses tomany countries. Data from the World Health Organization (WHO) show
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that the Philippines is leading other nations in the exportation of nurses(www.abbaphilippines.com; Gatbonton, 2006; Villas, 2004), comprising25% of all overseas nurses worldwide (Estella, 2005). As of 2006, thereare already 164,000 Filipino nurses, 85% of the country’s total, workingoutside the Philippines in about 46 countries. Out of this total, around100,000 of them have left only within the past 10 years (Cueto, 2006; www.sunstar.com.ph; Estella, 2005; Omi, 2006). There are also those who are still in the country who, while waiting for opportunities to behired abroad, are not practicing their profession, instead they end up working as call center agents and tellers in some private banks.Dr. Irineo Bernardo, executive officer of the Philippine HospitalAssociation, as quoted by Estella (2005), avers that the turnover of nurses has been particularly high from year 2000 to 2007. And as morenurses leave, the Philippines is only left with more unskilled anduntrained nurses.Records from the Philippine Overseas and Employment Agency(POEA) show that 13,536 Filipino nurses went overseas in 2001. Incontrast, that same year, only 4,430 students passed the Nursing BoardExamination, clearly showing that the country has been exporting morenurses than it is producing (Estella, 2005). Jossel Ebesate, secretary general of the Alliance of Health Workers(AHW) as cited by www.sunstar.com.ph, explains that if the trend of exporting nurses outside the country continues, the Philippine health-
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care system will soon collapse. This observation is supported by recordsfrom the Department of Education (DepEd) which show that as of 2007,the nurse-to-student ratio in schools is already standing at 1:4,830(Hicap, 2006; www.gov.ph). This broad ratio gap manifests the difficultyof the government to help students who are facing malnutrition andhealth problems to perform well in school. DepEd officials explain that if only schools have enough medical personnel, then the health concerns of students could have easily been responded (Hicap, 2006; www.gov.ph). The public school nurses are employed under the Health andNutrition Center (HNC) to safeguard the health and nutritional well-beingof the total school population by particularly implementing the IntegratedSchool Health and Nutrition Program (ISHNP) of DepEd. The SchoolHealth Program is an integral part of the school program with specialfocus on the health development of the child, anchoring on the followinglegal bases:1.PD 603 Child and Youth Welfare Code, specifically Article II(Promotion of Health) which states that “ it should be theresponsibility of the health, welfare and education entities toassist the parents in looking after the health of the child.”2.1986 Constitution of the Philippines, specifically Article VIII(Social Justice and Human Rights) which Section 11 statesthat “ the State shall adopt an integrated and comprehensiveapproach to health development which shall endeavor to make
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suraj sharma 222

hey friends ,,,, i m working on' job satisfaction among management and technical teachers', anybody want to share , is heartly welcome...sharma.deep.suraj@gmail.com

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