Job Motivation and Associated Factors Among Health Care Professionals Working in Public Health Facilities of Gedeo Zone, Southern Ethiopia

Nafkot Berhanu

doi:10.11648/j.cmr.20170601.12

Abstract

Since the level of job motivation and associated factors among health care professionals in public health institutions in Gedeo Zone is not yet studied the objective of this study is to assess Level of job motivation and associated factors among health care professionals in public health institutions of the Zone. A cross-sectional study design was conducted in 36 health center of Gedeo zone, during February 20 to May 10, 2015. The data were analyzed using SPSS. Factor score was computed for the items identified to represent the level of job motivation. Using this regression factor score, multivariate linear regression analysis was performed. More than three quarter 77.4% (226) of the respondents were discourage from working hard for different reasons. only 57 (19.5%) of Health care professionals working in public health centers were highly motivated, only 6.2% (18) of them are rewarded for their hard working. Sex, communication, resource availability, inadequate salary, feedback, training, working environment, workload and recognition were negative determinates of job motivation. The motivation of Health professional in Gedo zone is low. Since half of the professionals were demotivated, healthcare organizations should maximize its effort to practice incentive schemes.

Highlights

Above half participants were Gedeo in ethnicity followed by Amhara, 44.2 (129) of them were orthodox religion followers, around half were unmarried, all type of health care professionals accounts 74% (217) which includes clinical nurse, midwifery nurse, public health nurse, Health informatics and sanitarian nurse
The average salary for health care professionals working in public health centers of Gedeo zone is 2,580 (SD 1127) ETB, ranging from 1663 to 7424 per month (Table 1)
This study revealed that there is association of sex with level of job motivation, study done in Addis Abeba, does not show significance difference in work motivation based on gender again study done in Zambia shows females were more motivated than males but this study shows that there is difference among male and female [43,50]

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Introduction

It is not possible to “motivate” people directly, only to create an environment conducive to high degrees of motivation. Motivation itself is not an observable phenomenon; it is only possible to observe either the results of the motivational process (such as improved performance) or perhaps, some of the determinants of motivation [1]. Increased motivation creates the conditions for a more effective workforce, but because work motivation is an interactive process between workers and their work environment, good management and supervision are still critical factors in reaching organizational goals. Motivation is crucial for organizations to function; without motivation employees will not put up their best and the organization’s performance would be less efficient. Human resource management (HRM) systems in developing countries are weak and fragmented in the majority of health care organizations [1, 2, 3]

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