The personal aspects of motivation in healthcare provision

Abstract

The managements of healthcare companies work in a considerably turbulent environment. It has to react flexibly to the continuously changing macro-environment conditions. There are other important factors – mainly the relationship with every concerned group from the patients (customers), the insurance companies, suppliers, founders to the employees themselves. Health service faces mainly the workforce crisis at present, which is dominantly characteristic for the absence of nurses in majority of countries. Many specialists mention this fact as an acute problem and they appeal to solve this problem. That is the reason why the important and considerable task of hospitals´ management is not only to deal with their patients´ satisfaction, but also with the satisfaction of their employees. The work satisfaction factors are closely connected to the motivation and following of need for the adequate stimulation tools. The main aim is to stabilise the executive staff, its retention and further development in the achievement of desirable goals The main aim of the paper is to analyse the factor of work motivation for nurses regarding their work satisfaction and stabilization need in the present Slovak health service.