Love the Job... or the Patient? : Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care

A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivatio...

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Main Authors:	Banuri, Sheheryar, Keefer, Philip, de Walque, Damien
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM CIVIL SERVICE INTRINSIC MOTIVATION EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198581518535720915/Love-the-job-or-the-patient-task-vs-mission-based-motivations-in-health-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29372

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spelling	okr-10986-293722021-06-08T14:42:48Z Love the Job... or the Patient? : Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care Banuri, Sheheryar Keefer, Philip de Walque, Damien PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM CIVIL SERVICE INTRINSIC MOTIVATION EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task motivation, mission motivation has no additional effect on effort. The evidence emerges from experiments with nearly 250 medical and nursing students in Burkina Faso. The students exert effort in three tasks, from boring to interesting. In addition, for half of the students, mission motivation is present: their effort on the task generates benefits for a charity. Two strong results emerge. First, task motivation has an economically important effect on effort, more than doubling effort. Second, mission motivation increases effort, but only for mundane tasks and not when the task is interesting. Moreover, even for mundane tasks, the effects of mission motivation appear to be less than those of task motivation. 2018-02-16T21:44:05Z 2018-02-16T21:44:05Z 2018-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198581518535720915/Love-the-job-or-the-patient-task-vs-mission-based-motivations-in-health-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29372 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8338 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Africa Burkina Faso
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description	A booming literature has argued that mission-based motives are a central feature of mission-oriented labor markets. This paper shifts the focus to task-based motivation and finds that it yields significantly more effort than mission-based motivation. Moreover, in the presence of significant task motivation, mission motivation has no additional effect on effort. The evidence emerges from experiments with nearly 250 medical and nursing students in Burkina Faso. The students exert effort in three tasks, from boring to interesting. In addition, for half of the students, mission motivation is present: their effort on the task generates benefits for a charity. Two strong results emerge. First, task motivation has an economically important effect on effort, more than doubling effort. Second, mission motivation increases effort, but only for mundane tasks and not when the task is interesting. Moreover, even for mundane tasks, the effects of mission motivation appear to be less than those of task motivation.
format	Working Paper
author	Banuri, Sheheryar Keefer, Philip de Walque, Damien
author_facet	Banuri, Sheheryar Keefer, Philip de Walque, Damien
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title	Love the Job... or the Patient? : Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
title_short	Love the Job... or the Patient? : Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
title_full	Love the Job... or the Patient? : Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
title_fullStr	Love the Job... or the Patient? : Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
title_full_unstemmed	Love the Job... or the Patient? : Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care
title_sort	love the job... or the patient? : task vs. mission-based motivations in health care
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/198581518535720915/Love-the-job-or-the-patient-task-vs-mission-based-motivations-in-health-care http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29372
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Love the Job... or the Patient? : Task vs. Mission-Based Motivations in Health Care

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