بررسی انگیزش شغلی تکنولوژیست های اتاق عمل در بیمارستان های آموزشی – درمانی تابعه دانشگاه علوم پزشکی ایران سال96-95

Introduction: Motivation is one of the significant tools in promoting employees to reach a better result and to create a positive working environment for successful implementation of the planned programs. This study was conducted to determine the job motivation of the surgical technologists in educational hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences in 2016 and 2017. Methods and Materials: This article was descriptive cross-sectional study conducted on 128 surgical technologists selected from operation rooms of educational hospitals affiliated to Iran University of Medical Sciences by census sampling. Data were collected using the 40-item questionnaire of Herzberg Occupational Motivation. Data analysis was performed using independent t-test, ANOVA, and Pearson correlation coefficient by SPSS software. Results: The mean score of occupational motivation was 3.33 ± 0.52 (out of 4), which indicated medium to high occupational motivation among the surgical technologists. Among the internal factors, the nature of work and appreciation of employees were the most and the least important factors respectively. Among the external factors, salary and wage were the most important factors and supervision and the work policy had the least important factor. The results demonstrated that external factors are more important than internal factors in creating occupational motivation of surgical technologists. Discussion and Conclusion: The results showed that the occupational motivation of the surgical technologists was higher than the average and the external factors were more important compared to the internal factors in creating occupational motivation.