Employees Perception of Enabling Environment for Motivation of Human Resource for Health in Selected Public Hospitals in Tanzania

Abstract

Shortages of human resource for health (HRH) has been a subject of concern not only in the developed world but also in Africa. There has  been a number of explanations on why there are persistent shortages despite prevalence of various strategies to recruit, develop,  allocate and reward staff. Obviously, all these strategies will work better if there are equally good strategies in place to retain those  already employed and employees perceive them as good enough. By using qualitative and quantitative research data, the paper explores  and examines employees’ perception of available motivational factors for staff attraction and retention in hospitals. It is  observed that despite well intentioned government strategies to motivate staff they have potentials for attracting and retaining only a  small portion of staff working in public hospitals. This raises alarm for more work to be done in this area.