Racial Harassment, Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Quit: Evidence from the British Nursing Profession

Michael Shields and Stephen Wheatley Price

No 164, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper investigates the determinants of racial harassment at the workplace and its impact, via job satisfaction, on intentions to quit. Using data for ethnic minority nurses in Britain, we find that nearly 40% of nurses have experienced racial harassment from work colleagues, whilst more than 64% have suffered racial harassment from patients. The experience of racial harassment at the workplace leads to a significant reduction in job satisfaction, which, in turn, significantly increases nurses’ intentions to quit their job. These findings have important policy implications for retaining qualified nursing staff in the British National Health Service.

Keywords: job satisfaction; nursing; Racial harassment; intentions to quit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J24 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2000-06
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Published - published in: Economica, 2002, 69(274), 295-326

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