Effect of Incentive Package on the Performance of Health Workers at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital – Accra

Abstract

Human resource is widely acknowledged as the centre of all development processes in any organisation worldwide. In health organisations, for instance, health workers are expected to remain highly committed and loyal to their jobs. The main objective of the study was to determine the influence of motivation on health worker performance. This study applied an exploratory cross sectional design using quantitative methods. The study sample included a total of 324 clinical health personnel from the Accra Rgional Hospital. Self-administered structured questionnaires were used to collect data from participants. Statistical analysis used was descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentages was used to analyze the socio demographic variables. Logistic regression tests were employed to analyze relationship between socio demographic and intrinsic and extrinsic motivational factors and how these motivational factors influences health workers’ performance. Multinomial regression revealed that achievement, recognition and effective supervision improved work performance, however incentive was not significantly associated with performance. Improved salary, availability of equipment, availability of adequate human resource and good interpersonal relationship enhanced worker performance. Overall the findings of the study suggest that to improve the performance of health workers at Accra Regional Hospital, there is the need for carefully defined motivational factors that are reliable and strategically relevant ensuring that they are free from criterion contamination and deficiency.