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Percepción de la motivación de los directivos intermedios en tres hospitales de la Región del Maule, Chile

2009; Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública; Volume: 51; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0036-36342009000500009

1606-7916

Miguel Alejandro Bustamante-Ubilla, María Carolina del Río-Rivero, Germán Enrique Lobos-Andrade, Patricia Villarreal-Navarrete,

Stress and Burnout Research

In this work, a questionnaire was designed and perceptions of motivation and demotivation of middle managers in three hospitals in the Region del Maule, Chile were measured.The fieldwork was carried out between September and October, 2006. A questionnaire that included 57 statements to measure attitude was administered and qualified according to a five-point Likert-type scale. The population studied included l25 professionals that supervise roughly 3 800 employees.Ten variables were identified, 5 motivational and 5 demotivational. Notable among the motivational variables are vocation and service-oriented spirit; among the demotivational variables are lack of recognition and commitment.It is affirmed that both motivational variables as well as demotivational variables are essentially qualitative and that economic and salary variables are less relevant and less hierarchical.