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Effects of Job Satisfaction on Productivity

Behavioral care workers in mental health care provider organizations frequently are required to care for patients who are acutely psychotic, aggressive, highly destructive, suicidal, or at risk of escape. Traditionally, "management strategies" for such patients have included the use of physical restraints, seclusion rooms, or constant one-to-one observation. These strategies have been criticized on grounds of ethics, economics, and efficacy (Montgomery & Johnson, 1996). The continued use of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric facilities "in the face of low confidence in such coercive interventions by health care professional may be a sign both of the persistence of traditional practices which have not been closely examined, as well as by the use of these traditional practices to shield the staff of such facilities against fear of mental illness, violence and loss of control" (Goren & Curtis, 1996, p. 7). Under such conditions, the stress placed on behavioral care workers becomes intense. Even when the needs of patients are less demanding than those described above, pressures and stress on behavioral care givers can reach damaging levels when accompanies by unsatisfactory organizational or working conditions (Wells, Astrachan, Tischler, & Unutzer, 1995).

Occupational stress, work overload and underload, alienation, the "burn out" phenomenon, organizational role definition, performance and reward, organizational commitment, and employee empowerment all are contributors to an individual's perceptions of job satisfaction or dissatisfaction (Stolte, & Myers, 1995). In the organizational environment, job dissatisfaction has been implicated in the deterioration of performance efficiency by both managers and subordinates. When performance efficiency suffers, the quality of the overall organizational environment deteriorates, and organizational productivity deteriorates (Lee & Ashfort, 1993).

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