Association between Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction among Nurses in the Clinical Settings in India Rajan Ancil V1, Soni Kapil Dev2,*, Roja VR3, Kamath Rajesh4 1Nursing Officer, JPNATC, AIIMS, New Delhi 2Associate Professor Critical & Intensive Care, JPNATC, AIIMS, New Delhi 3MPH Epidemiology, Research Scientist (ICMR), AIIMS, Raipur, 492099 4Assistant Professor, Prasanna School of Public Health, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka-576104 *Corresponding Author: Dr. Kapil Dev Soni, Associate Professor Critical & Intensive Care, JPNATC, AIIMS, New Delhi, e-mail: kdsoni111@gmail.com
Online published on 4 April, 2020. Abstract Background Motivation of health workers is necessary to generate the organizational commitment towards the patients and the hospital. Therefore the knowledge about what motivates and satisfies them is very essential. Objective The primary objective of the study was to explore the relationship between Work Motivation and Job Satisfaction among Nurses in the Clinical Settings Method The study is conducted through online survey, target being nurses of Government or a private run hospitals. Sample size was 100. Results The study shows majority of the study population belonged to age group between 25-30years (55%). Gender-wise distribution showed 48% males and 52% females. Female Nurses were more as compared to males. More than half of the study population (68.3%) were poorly motivated and their job 39% satisfaction level is very poor. Work motivation is highly significantly associated with job satisfaction (p=0.001), (p value is less than 0.005). Conclusion There should be an effective Human resource management system for nursing community in every higher level hospital. Top Keywords Motivation, Job satisfaction. Top |