Nursing Managemen

T: Motivation

Motivational theorist in Management

Motivation describes the factors that initiate and direct behavior.

Motivated employees are more likely to be productive than nonmotivated workers.

This is one reason that motivation is an important aspect of enhancing employee performance.

Historically motivational theories were concerned with three things:

1.What mobilizes or energizes human behavior

2.What directs behavior toward the accomplishment of some objective

3.How such behavior is sustained over time

It is used depends on their ability to

explain motivation adequately

Predict with some degree of accuracy what people actually do and lastly

Suggest practical ways of influencing employees to accomplish organizational objectives

MT can be classified into at least 2 distinct group:

Content Theorists

Process Theorists

Content theories:

Motivational theories that emphasize individual needs or the rewards that may satisfy those needs

Comparison of Content theories

Maslow Alderfer Herzberg

Self-actualization Growth needs Motivating factors

Esteem needs

Belongingness(social needs)

Relatedness needs Hygiene factors

Safety needs Existence needs

Physiological needs

Process theories

Motivational theories that emphasize how the motivation process works to direct an individual’s effort into performance

1. Process theories

Attempt to explain why a person behaves in a particular manner

MT that emphasize how the motivation process works to direct an individual’s effort into performance

- Reinforcement theory e.g Skinner 1953

Operant conditioning

Punishment

Extinction

Shaping

Maslow theory:

Application to managing in nursing.

The nurse manager is

responsible for • Understanding motivating factors for

employees and how motivation affects job performance

• Using motivational techniques to enhance employee performance

• Utilizing creative techniques to motivate staff when traditional rewards such as pay or benefit increases are unavailable and

• Empowering staff to use creativity to enhance job performance.

• GROUP WORK:

DESCRIBE MASLOW’S THEORY AND OTHER THEORIES RELATED TO MANAGEMENT

HOW THESE THEORIES APPLICABLE IN MANAGING PEOPLE/NURSES

Why you choose such theory in management?

Reflect your experience in the ward