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Positive Ways to Encourage and Motivate Employees in a Healthcare Setting
Many healthcare settings are extremely stressful environments, and the prevalence of burnout syndrome among healthcare workers such as registered nurses in emergency rooms is among the highest of all professions (Lombardo & Eyre, 2011). Therefore, identifying positive ways to encourage and motivate employees in healthcare workplaces has assumed new importance and relevance in recent years. To determine some optimal approaches, this paper provides a review and discussion of two peer-reviewed journal articles concerning positive ways to encourage and motivate employees in a healthcare setting, followed by a summary of the research and important findings concerning these issues in the conclusion.
Review and Discussion
Although all healthcare workers are unique, they share some common wants and needs that can represent the starting point for any initiatives that are intended to encourage and motivate them. For instance, one method that has proven efficacy in encouraging and motivating hospital employees is known as internal marketing. In this context, internal marketing involves "attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining qualified employees through job-products that satisfy their needs" (Chen & Lin, 2013). In order to optimize the effectiveness of internal marketing strategies for employee encouragement and motivation, it is...
100). Properly conducted, internal marketing strategies that take into account that wide range of variables that have an effect on employee encouragement and motivation can help improve employee engagement levels and reduce unplanned turnover rates in a wide range of healthcare settings (Chen & Lin, 2013).
Another strategy that has proven effectiveness in encouraging and motivating healthcare workers include is the use of short-term incentives. In this regard, Malambe (2013) reports that, "There is a strong, established link between pay for performance and organizational performance. This link, however, does not always have a positive impact, especially…
References
Chen, Y-C & Lin, S. (2013, May). Modeling internal marketing and employee loyalty: A quantitative approach. Asian Social Science, 9(5), 99-102.
Lombardo, B. & Eyre, C. (2011, January). Compassion fatigue: A nurse's primer. Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 16(1), 1-5.
Malambe, L. (2013, January 1). Short-term incentive schemes for hospital managers. SA Journal of Human Resource Management, 11(1), 1-3.
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