Exploring the Factors Influencing Nurse’s Work Motivation

Abstract

Work motivation is a key to emerge and enhance the nurse’s satisfaction and their work performance. Accordingly, the factors that affect the work motivation among nurses became essential instruments to modify and shape the work behaviors of the nurses and its consequences. Thus, the current study aims to explore and describe the factors that are influencing the nurse’s work motivation in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Cross-sectional, descriptive exploratory design is used with 300 registered nurses who were selected by stratified proportionate random sampling technique from King Abd El Aziz governmental hospital, Jeddah, KSA. The data was collected by Motivation at Work Questionnaire (MWQ), which included five sections; four was developed by Toode et al. in 2015, and one was developed by Warr in 1979