Abstract:

The purpose of this study was to describe the influence of certain organizational variables (27 variables) on hospital staff nurses' job performance as reported by staff nurses. Staff nurses' age, education status, work time, employment status were examined for their effect on this influence. The reported influence of organizational variables on job performance was measured by a questionnaire developed for this study. The study used comparative descriptive study design. The staff nurses who was used for this study were 225 hospital staff nurses. Study questions were answered using a number of data analysis procedures that consisted of descriptive statistics, frequencies, t-test and factor analysis. Also findings hihglight the need to further investigate the type and magnitude of influence of most organizational variables. The study showed the relative importance of the 27 organizational variables in influencing nurses' job performance. Nurses in this study reported that workload is the most influential organizational variable on their job performance. Factor analysis yielded an eigt-factor model that explained 57,764 % of total variance. Study finding provide support to argue that administratively controllable influence job organizational variables influence job performance of nurses in different magnitude.

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