Influence of Incentives on Nurses’ Performance

Abstract

The various mechanisms that impact and guide our behavior to accomplish a particular objective collectively make up motivation. Objectives: To study the effect of Incentives on Nurses’ performance.  Methods: 111 people in total were chosen as a sample for this study. In the three tertiary hospitals of Lahore, Pakistan, a cross-sectional study with a self-administered structured questionnaire was carried out. Likert Scale has been used as the instrument. After the data was collected, it was analyzed using SPSS version 16.0 software. The results were analyzed in terms of descriptive statistics frequency; percentage were used for data analysis. Results: A total of 101 questionnaires were returned from 111 questionnaires distributed to respondents.  Results of the study revealed that 62% nurses strongly agreed that Appreciation certificates, shields verbal appreciation led to good performance. 91% strongly agreed or agreed that Job satisfaction among nurses’ affects their performance.41% strongly agreed and 51% agreed. Service structure affects job satisfaction which leads to good performance. 93% stayed satisfied with their current performance. Furthermore, 73% were not satisfied services structure and there was an equal level of satisfaction among nurses with their present incentives. Conclusions: The study shows that incentives affect the nurses’ performance which leads to quality care and productivity of the organization. In this research mostly respondents were agreed that incentives are enough in response performance but second highly percentage of respondents were not agreed with current services structure. Both extrinsic and intrinsic incentives improve the nurses’ performance.