Date of Conferral

3-16-2026

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Nursing

Advisor

Tresa Kaur

Abstract

Exploring nursing faculty job satisfaction is important for retaining faculty in undergraduate nursing programs because they are vital to training future bedside nurses. There is a nursing faculty shortage in the United States, and retaining faculty is critical to addressing it. The purpose of this study, guided by Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory, was to (a) understand the relationship between workload, work-life balance, and nursing faculty job satisfaction and (b) the relationship between student incivility and nursing faculty job satisfaction in undergraduate nursing programs. Undergraduate nursing faculty in Ohio and Florida with at least 2 years of teaching experience were recruited via a social media recruitment flyer. The final sample consisted of 85 participants who responded to questions on job satisfaction, workload, work-life balance, and civility. Likert-scale responses were analyzed quantitatively using multiple regression. The findings of this descriptive correlational study revealed a statistically significant relationship, with a medium to large effect, between work-life balance and nursing faculty job satisfaction (R2 = .27, p < .001). The findings of student incivility and its effect on nursing faculty job satisfaction indicated a small to medium effect (R2 = .08, p < .04). The implications of these findings may be important to college and university administrations as well as directors of nursing programs. Understanding factors that contribute to dissatisfaction among nursing faculty, can help enable them to develop interventions to prevent faculty from leaving the academic setting, thereby promoting positive social change.

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