International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2012
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 3

Improving motivation among health care workers in private health care organizations - A perspective of nursing personnel

  • Author:
  • J. Venkatesh, D. Balaji
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 183 to 192

*Associate Professor, School of Management Studies, Anna University of Technology Coimbatore, Jothipuram Post, Coimbatore - 641 047. Tamil Nadu, India

**Full Time PhD Research Scholar, School of Management Studies, Anna University of Technology Coimbatore, Jothipuram Post, Coimbatore - 641 047. Tamil Nadu, India

Online published on 14 November, 2013.

Abstract

The article aspires to investigate the experiences of nursing personnel in private health care organizations, in provisions of their work motivation and satisfaction, promotion, encouragement and relinquishing the job, interpersonal interaction at work and to recognize areas for sustainable development to the health care services they present. No statistical differences amongst nurse practitioners and executives of what encourages them in private health care organization as workplace and clarifies feature that decrease and increase motivation among nurses. Motivation decreases, when nurses are not authorized and not independent in activity; nurses’ competencies. Motivation increases when the nurses work together with physicians by parity; nursing profession is valued and documented as self-governing and appreciated by themselves and other health care specialists; the interpersonal communication is effective and inconsistencies are solved constructively. A chief weakness is that the characteristics of the present study may limit the generalizability of the results. The major suggestion is that the paper supports the prediction for distinctiveness of motivation among health care workers in private health care organizations with viewpoint of nursing personnel. This paper observes in a private health care sector the factors that increase and/or decrease the motivation of nursing personnel.

Keywords

Motivation (psychology), Private hospitals, Health services, Nurses