The effect of nurses' individual, occupational and work environment characteristics and organizational cynicism levels on work motivation

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of nurses' individual, occupational and work environment characteristics and organizational cynicism levels on work motivation. This descriptive and relational study was conducted between September 2019 and June 2020 with 850 nurses who worked at a 2 different private and 2 public hospital in Istanbul for at least six months and volunteered to participate in the study. The data were collected with the Nurses Job Motivation Scale (NJMS), the Organizational Cynicism Scale and the 20-item Questionnaire developed by the researcher to determine nurses'individual, occupational and working conditions. In the analysis of the data, descriptive analysis, Mann Whitney U test, Kruskal Wallis test (advanced analysis with the Bonferroni corrected Mann Whitney U test) and Spearman Pearson correlation analysis were used. It was determined that the work motivation of the nurses was above the average While there was no statistically significant correlation between the nurses' motivation of job score and the variables such as gender, age and marital status, a statistically significant correlation was determined between their motivation of job score and the variables such as income rate, educational status, institution worked in, total length of service, length of service in the institution, length of service in the unit, occupational position, intention to continue in the institution, type of shift, work environment, communication with nurses, communication with other health personnel, communication with the manager, promotion opportunities in the institution, rewarding, social opportunities and the perception of workload. A positive, strong and highly significant relationship was determined between the nursing work motivation and the total scale of organizational cynicism. In conclusion; organizational cynicism level negatively affects the work motivation of nurses. In order to increase the work motivation of nurses, it may be beneficial for nurse managers to develop strategies to reduce the organizational cynicism levels of their employees. Keywords: Nursing, Cynicism, Organizational cynicism, Job Motivation