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I agree with the scientific management theory which relays that people are motivated by money. This is also reflected in my hospital with our yearly evaluations. Staff performance evaluations are done, and employees are given three percent max of their yearly salary as an reward. We also have a yearly bonus that is given to all staff members, which includes all full time, part-time and perdiiem’s. This monetary factor does motivate all staff with performance and hospital improvements. Our moral is great at the end of every year! I also concur that it is perceived that night shift is the less busy shift, therefore requires less staffing. That seems to be a ongoing belief in nursing. Your trauma orthopedic unit sounds like a PCA is greatly needed to care for the patients. Staffing remains to be an ongoing problems with nursing.
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The Scientific Management Theory was created by Fredrick Taylor. He studied how work was performed, and then looked at how this affected worker productivity. Taylor’s philosophy focused on the belief that making people work as hard as they could was not as efficient as optimizing the way the work was done.
Taylor’s four principles are explained as:
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