A Case Study of Motivational Levels among Personnel Working in A Government Teaching Hospital of Punjab

Assessment of motivation levels and associated factors among the nursing staff of tertiary‐level government hospitals

“…Bodur S et al and Lambrou et al also observed similar findings in their studies. Similar to findings of current study, other studies have also documented that refresher trainings and workshops increased the level of motivation and work enthusiasm among the participants, with significant high score for factors like general motivation, job satisfaction, organization commitment, and conscientiousness …”

“…When the participants' hierarchical positions were analyzed for motivation levels, it was found that nursing officers possessed significantly high mean score for burnout and personal issues and low score for intrinsic job satisfaction as compared with their supervisors suggestive of prevailing demotivation levels among nursing officers. Sacks E et al, Bodur S et al, Bansal et al, and Jardeli E et al also showed that staff working low in hierarchy were more demotivated due to lower salary and lesser respect they perceived as compared with senior staff.…”

“…In India, very few studies have been done to study motivation among nurses. Among the existing work, extrinsic factors like personal financial gains, human resource policy of the organization, and career development opportunitieswhich are directly under organizations' control were motivating factors, whereas few studies have cited intrinsic factors which are under employees' control like parity with the co‐workers, diligence, interest toward work, respect for the organization, and work culture cited as motivating factors …”

“…It is important to study motivation among nurses in North India because tertiary‐level hospitals in this part of country cater huge population and motivation level of nurses is critical for hospital performance. Further, the existing comprehensive work on this topic in this part of country is very less to inform hospital administrators, policy makers, and implementers for framing evidence‐based strategies for better hospital performance . The present study comprehensively assessed the motivation level of nurses working in 3 highly decorated tertiary‐level government hospitals and also underpins the factors attributing to motivation of nursing staff in a jurisdiction of northern India.…”

Pattern of the rational worker incentive system

“…Incentive system, which works effectively in one organization, may not be so effective for another one [1,2,[4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]19]. And no matter what justifications analysis of the reasons of this situation gives, for the enterprise it is important to obtain significant results for the current / planned time period [3,12,17,22].…”