MOTIVES AND ATTITUDES OF HEALTH CARE WORKERS IN THE LIGHT OF RESEARCH

The objective of this article is to identify theoretical issues related to the process and tools for motivating and to examine attitudes and motivation of the nursing staff in healthcare facilities and hospitals. In order to accomplish the stated objective, the measures taken came down to the following: factor analysis and categorization of additive factors, determination of categories of hypothetical motives and attitudes, developing a questionnaire with appropriate scales corresponding to the abstracted types in order to measure motives and attitudes, operationalization of the obtained data and an analysis of the results of the conducted study. The test group was formed by a 98-person sample, selected from the general population of the nursing staff of healthcare organization units of the Malopolska region. In the light of the obtained results of the study, it may be noted that the structure of the dominant motives behind entering the nursing profession and attitudes towards the performed social role in the rank ordering within the highest rank (allocentrism) developed at the level of 95% and 100% respectively. A similar situation may be observed in terms of the examination of the structure of motivational-cognitive factors behind taking up and performing the socio-professional role of the nursing personnel, where allocentrism comes clearly to the fore, as indicated in case of motivation and attitudes by 98% and 100% of the subjects, respectively. Taking into account the results of the empirical research, it should first be stated that while choosing one's profession, the test group was driven by allocentric motives, inner voice and sensation seeking.

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