Figure 1 compares the 25th percenti

Figure 1 compares the 25th percentile, median and 75th percentile scores for each of the Job Descriptive Index subscales and national norms foe managers.
The spans of the scores for nursing home administrators are more compressed and the Job in General scale between the nursing home administrators for all of the categories than for their counterparts in industry.
The 75th percentile and the medians were higher for every category of the national norms than for the sample.
In the pay subscale in the Job Descriptive Index the administrator’ median score is below the 25th percentile of the national norms.

DISCUSSION
The respondent profile in Table 1 provide data highlighting some characteristics of nursing home administrators to begin their career is determined by this study to be 35 years, indicating that administration is likely a second career.
The highest rate of dissatisfaction occurred in the 40- to 49-year-old group.
Although other areas of healthcare employ men in the top position more frequently than women, nursing homes do not. These administrators represent a very mobile group and change facilities every 31 months.


All of the job satisfaction indicator scores were more compressed for the nursing home administrators in this survey compared to the national norms for managers.
The item analysis indicated that the respondents did not describe their job in the same upper, positive range as other managers do and were more likely to character ers and supervisors was consistent with national norms