Contributions of Study Significance of the Research Scope of Study

7 7. To identify the mediating role of job satisfaction in the relationship between organizational support and performance of nurses who work for private hospital in Padang.

1.4 Contributions of Study

This research can give contributions for the hospital management to examine about job stress and organizational support and how its impact toward nurse’s performance. It can be also measures whether performance affects their job satisfaction for nurse who works in the private hospital or not. 1. The results for the Company is expected to provide a useful contribution to the work-related stress, organizational support, and job satisfaction, so the agency can find a way related to the right as an effort to cope with work stress and organizational support, and increase employee job satisfaction Miao. 2010. 2. The results of this study is expected to help the learning process and the application of science, especially those related to Human Resource Management related to job stress, and organizational support on job performance with job satisfaction as a mediating variable. 3. This research will add references that can be used by other researcher who Interesting to investigate the same topic in the future.

1.5 Significance of the Research

This study is expected strengthen the theories relate to defines the determinant of job stress, and organizational support on job satisfaction of nurses 8 who work at private hospital in Padang. The basic assumption is that nurses reactions toward job stress, and organizational support and its impact on overall nurse’s performance. The effect of performance as a key component in the ultimate success on job satisfaction, the effect from different aspects on job satisfaction that may affect the ultimate success on organizational system, and also the effect of job stress, and organizational support on job satisfaction.

1.6 Scope of Study

The role of human resource management has been more significant and important in order to increase job satisfaction level of employees within an organization. Job satisfaction will lead to a more dedicated person and get fairness in workplace so that nurses can motivate to work in this hospital. This research has a limited scope of analyses in terms of numbers of variables and object of the research. The variables will be tested in this research are limited into: job stress and organizational support, job satisfaction, and performance. The researcher limits the research context by focusing in nurses who work at private hospital in Padang. 9

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