Nursing Case Study

Political Circumstances Affecting the Nursing Profession Nurses need to have pay, benefits, and working conditions that enable them to feel secure, so they in turn can make patients feel secure. Through the lens of Herzberg 's theory, it is clear that transformation must occur at the level of an entire society if it is to occur in health care. Unfortunately, dysfunction at the level of government has consequences that can seriously limit the extent to which Zimbabwe 's nurses can feel a sense of empowerment and autonomy. Even in the nations’ largest cities, they may at times have been without electricity or clean water after Mugabe replaced all the cabinet ministers to people who were loyal to him ("Zimbabwe: What Next? Anticipating," 2014). Loyalty is given priority over competence, and some of the ministers appointed by Mugabe may not have been qualified for their positions. Therefore, the Zimbabwean public sector represents a particularly challenging environment in which to implement employee motivation initiatives. The complexity of such an environment calls for a broad and inclusive theoretical model. Herzberg 's

While the author of this paper acknowledges that transformational leadership and Herzberg 's two factors represent two different theories, the common link between the two of them is their effect on motivation. If “transformation” is appropriate as a theme for this review of literature relevant to Herzberg 's theory applied for nurses at public hospitals in Zimbabwe, then the need for transformation extends to the level of the entire society and its