Nurses’ Perception toward Organizational Change and its Relation to Work Motivation

Abstract

: Background : Nurses have different reactions to change initiative, because they have different personal experiences, motivation level so, creating motivational environment in health care organization among the nurses is considered most important role of hospital change agent. Aim of the study: Assess nurses’ perception toward organizational change and its relation to work motivation. Design: Descriptive correlational research design was used in this study. Setting : It was conducted at El-Menshawy General Hospital affiliation of Ministry of Health and population. Subject: Stratified random sampling of nurses(n=260). Tool: Structured questionnaire consisted of three parts part I: Subject characteristics. Part II : Nurses` Perception toward Organizational Change part III: Nurses` Work Motivation. Results: More than half of nurses had a low level of perception toward organizational change, and work motivation. Conclusion: There was a statistically significant positive correlation between levels of nurses` perception regarding organizational change and their work motivation. Recommendations: Hospital management describes tasks and timelines during change process to nurses and provides them with time and resources required to implement change.