Effects of Work Environment on Job Satisfaction and Spontaneity Care Workers at Social Welfare Facilities

Purpose - This purpose of this research is to verify the influ-ence of the care workers' environment on their job satisfaction and on their voluntary behavior. Research design, data, and methodology - Data were col-lected from care workers at elderly medical and home care fa-cilities inKoreainSeoul andKyung-ki. Of 367total re-spondents, 285 responses were used. This study performed ex-ploratory factor analysis in order to verify the validity and credi-bility of the data. Regression analysis was conducted to verify the influence of the working environment, which encompasses the worker's relationship with the agency and with the elderly, on job satisfaction. Results - The hypothesis results were: First, from analyzing the influence of the working environment on the worker's job satisfaction, both relationship with the agency (p<.001) and rela-tionship with the elderly (p<.05) positively affect job satisfaction; second, the exploratory analysis verifies the influence or the working environment on job satisfaction. Conclusions - The results indicate that the relationship with the agency (p<.001) and relationship with the elderly (p<.001) both positively affect the voluntary behavior of the workers.