Psychological Impact on Mankweng Hospital Employees on Displaying the Names of Award Winners in the Hospital Corridor Wall and Its Effect on Enhancing Motivation and Performance
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Background: The concept of giving out accolades and rewards has been there for centuries. When an individual is recognized for their good deed, they feel delighted. This inspires them to keep getting better and binds them to greater goals. First Annual award ceremony of the Mankweng Tertiary and Academic Hospital was held in March 2022. The hospital’s management recognized outstanding employees from all the different sections. After the ceremony, the hospital’s management displayed those award winners’ names on the wall of the main corridor of the hospital and this was done in order to enhance further motivation, engagement & encouragement. The main objective of the study to find out the employee’s perception on the displaying reward winner names in the wall of the Mankweng Hospital corridor and whether there is any enhancement of the employees' motivation.
Material & Method: The questionnaires were distributed to the different units for all categories of workers in Mankweng Hospital. The questionnaires form comprises of 5 sections: Section A, B, C, D & E. The study was cross-sectional that applied one-way analysis of variance to assess participant’s responses, feeling and research is explanatory in nature.
Result: Total 222 participants. Out of that 140 (63%) participants have positive feeling about the display the award winner name in the wall & 132 (59.5%) have participants are motivated with this display and in future 54% participants prefer combination of Supervisor & Peer colleague’s assessment for reward selection.
Conclusion: From this study we can conclude that displaying of award winner name in the public place enhance motivation of employee. Majority of participants agreed with the combination of Supervisors and colleagues involvement for future assessment method.
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