Assignment 1: Theoretical Foundation for Research Paper (Major Assessment)

Developing Research Questions or Hypotheses

            The phenomenon of interest (POI) is motivation leading to workers' satisfaction. The following are the research questions:

i. What are the effective strategies for increasing motivation among nurses? 

ii. What impact has motivation strategies have on the performance of the nursing staff?

The rationale for selecting the first research questions is to be specific more specific and aim to understand the possible solutions to make informed recommendations on what hospitals can do to increase motivation that will lead to increased performance of healthcare providers. In the second research question, the rationale targets just one aspect of the POI and uses more specific terms to get a clear path to finding an answer.

            It is beneficial to study motivation as POI because a researcher gets to know what motivates them, what motivates them, and what behaviors trigger motivation in them. With research, it becomes easy to understand the relationship between motivation and performance. These two aspects, motivation and performance, directly influence each other. Only through studying motivation can help a person understand the relationship and approaches to balancing the relationship to achieve consistency in performance (Chai, Cheng, Mei, & Fan, 2019). These approaches can be strategies for approaching the phenomenon of interest holistically. In the current dynamic healthcare setting, motivation is vital for ensuring nurses' positive performance facing difficulties in attending to aging patients and patients with chronic diseases such as cancer using limited resources. So, the primary benefit of studying motivation is to know how it is a crucial indicator of performance and job satisfaction under the current dynamic and complex healthcare setting.

References

Chai, X., Cheng, C., Mei, J., & Fan, X. (2019). Student nurses' career motivation toward gerontological nursing: A longitudinal study. Nurse Education Today, 76, 165-171.