The role of job satisfaction and quality of work life on nurses' desire to migrate abroad (Case study: nurses of Ahvaz Naft Hospital)

Talebi, Mohammad Ali; Ahmadi Atoi, Abdul Reza; Ghanbari Birgani, Hadis

doi:10.22054/qjsd.2025.83193.2633

The role of job satisfaction and quality of work life on nurses' desire to migrate abroad (Case study: nurses of Ahvaz Naft Hospital)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

mohammad ali talebi ¹

Abdul Reza Ahmadi Atoi ²

hadis ghanbari Birgani ³

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Payam e Noor University, Tehran, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Payam e Noor University, Tehran, Iran

³ Master's student in Sociology, Payam Noor University, Bojnord, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22054/qjsd.2025.83193.2633

Abstract

With the emergence of the Covid-19 disease, efforts to recruit nurses from low- and middle-income countries increased. Reports in Iran also indicate the increasing tendency of nurses to migrate. Considering the importance of the subject, the present research is designed with the aim of investigating the role of job satisfaction and quality of work life on the desire of nurses to migrate abroad.. From the point of view of the applied goal and the research method used in this research, it is a mixed or mixed method, in which content analysis and survey methods are used, respectively. In the qualitative part, the statistical population included nurses working in Naft Ahvaz Hospital in 1402, and 13 people were randomly identified and interviewed using the targeted sampling method, coded and analyzed with the software.. In the quantitative part, the method of random sampling was simple, according to Morgan's table, 186 people answered the questionnaires. Exploratory analysis method and SPSS software were used for data analysis. By reviewing the interviews, 112 codes were identifiedwhich are among the factors preventing the migration of people learning the language, the loss of friends' networks, leaving the family and sources of information about the migration of friends and virtual space and the three favorite countries of England, Canada and Denmark, and economic factors are also among the most significant

Keywords

Job satisfaction

quality of working life

nurses

immigration

Ahvaz Oil Hospital

Subjects

۸۰/۵۰۰۰ Social Development Social Welfare Globalization Family abuse Job Satisfaction social participation

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