Nurses’ Motivation: an emphasis on Managers’ role

Vol.3  No.1

Year: 2013

 
Issue: Feb-Apr

Title : Nurses’ Motivation: an emphasis on Managers’ role

Author Name : Shahina Pirani 

Synopsis :

Motivation is the willingness or desire to work well and perform effectively on the job. There are two types of motivation; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation is the internal desire to accomplish the task in a productive way and it deals with personal value or strong work ethics which give them passion to do the best. On the other hand, extrinsic motivation refers to the motivation which comes from outside an individual which include promotions, appreciation, bonuses and days off. There are various factors which cause lack of motivation among nurses. Some of them include; manager’s management style, strict policy, lack of appreciation, workload, salary, promotion and so on. Frederick Herzberg was behavioral scientist who proposed a motivation-hygiene theory. This theory has been applied in this paper to emphasis the role of managers to enhance nurses’ motivation specifically in terms of nurses’ recognition and their growth and development. It requires nurses to be ambitious, responsible, to be proud of being a nurse and the employing institution need to take initiative to bring change and demonstrate individual abilities.