THE CORRELATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CLIMATE WITH JOB SATISFACTION OF NURSES AT THE GENERAL HOSPITAL OF MATARAM

Introduction: Nurses are the majority of human resource in hospital and directly communicate with patient as receiver of hospital’s service. So that nurse’s performance will influence a good or bad from hospital services quality. Nurse’s performance influenced of many factors, one of that is satisfaction. A good nursing’s working climate in hospital could increase satisfaction and quality of nurse’s performance. This study has been conducted in the in hospital care unit of RSUD Kota Mataram in order to know the correlation between hospital organization climate and nurse working satisfaction. Methods: Design of this study was correlational study with cross-sectional approach. The populations in this study were all nurses in the in hospital care unit of RSUD Kota Mataram, with the total sample were 48 people. The instruments were questioner. The analytic were used Pearson Product Moment. Results: The result of this study has shown that 68.7% nurses has intermediate perception of hospital organization climate, 25% nurses were still being not satisfy category , and there is no correlation between hospital organization climate and nurse working satisfaction (r=0,249). Discussion: Suggested to RSUD Kota Mataram to keep organization climate by define working standard not too high neither too low and by giving responsibility and independence to every nurse but still open to accept consultation if nurse meet some trouble on their work. And hopefully to more care about incentive distribution system for nurse satisfaction and increasing nurse motivation in RSUD Kota Mataram. Keywords: organization climate, working, job, satisfactio