Motivation sources study of pharmacy specialists within their cooperation with the pharmacy

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to determine the motivation sources of the pharmacy specialists within their cooperation with the pharmacy as a guarantee of creating a system of adaptive personnel management of the pharmacy. The search and systematization of various motivation sources is an actual attempt to find the ways to increase the productivity of a particular pharmacy specialist and pharmacy staff as a whole. The motivation questionnaire "Motivation Sources Inventory" has been proposed as a basis, which had been adapted based on the specific of activity in the pharmacy. Five modern motivation sources have been chosen, the study of which will allow to improve the personnel management system of pharmacy. The categorical distribution of the indicators based on motivation sources according to the pharmacy specialists’ length of service has been made. Group integral indicators for each source for individual groups of respondents have been calculated. The integrated group profiles of pharmacy specialists’ motivation sources have been organized according to their length of service. Thus, internal motivation - is the most important motivation sources for the category of young pharmacy specialists who work for a short period of time (up to 5 years). Instrumental motivation plays the main role for motivation in the group of up to 5 years and the “external concept “I” (J3) has a big priority for pharmacy specialists with length of service of up to 10 years. The obtained results indicate the prospects of using further study to improve the system personnel management through the development and further introduction of technologies for managing the pharmacy specialist motivational profile, taking into account their indicators and orientation of the motivation sources.