PERCEIVED EFFECTS OF MOTIVATION ON HEALTH CARE WORKERS’ PERFORMANCE

ABSTRACT

Work motivation is a vital driving force in achieving performance. Without motivation, employees will not succeed in completing a job to the fullest because no will comes from within the employee itself, what appears is only routine. The work motivation factor for health care workers in carrying out their duties as health care providers greatly determine the success of the performance of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State. This study aims to determine the effect of work motivation on health workers performance at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State, namely Work Motivation (X) with the dependent variable namely health workers performance (Y) of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State. The study used a sample of 215 respondents. The data collection method used was a questionnaire spread hearing which was processed using simple linear regression analysis. The results of this study indicate that based on the results of simple linear regression analysis, the equation is obtained: Y = 1.576 + 572 X. The hypothesis submission using the t-test shows that work motivation has a significant effect on employee performance. The coefficient of determination (R²) is 56%. This shows that 56% of employee performance can be explained by motivational variables, while the rest is influenced by other factors not examined. The benefit of this research is to provide input to government agencies regarding the influence of work motivation at the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital, Edo State. The study therefore recommends amongst others that: Organisations should make use of external rewards like promotions, recognition and praise compliments and also involve the creation of conducive workplace environment so as to assist in improving the efficiency and performance of employees, hence, improving the overall performance of the organization; private sector establishments should be encouraged to adopt more positive motivational strategies in order to align themselves with the best practices, organisations should employ experts to handle their wages and salaries structure and review it when the need arise and so forth.