en Health Health Original Article Original Article <font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="color: blue font-size: 10pt">Background: </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt">Health worker motivation has the potential to have a large impact on health system performance, and this depends on some factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting this motivation.</span></font><p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="color: blue font-size: 10pt">Methods:</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt"> From Winter 2013 to Spring 2014, 1046 employees and physicians (439 males and 607 females) <font size="2">with a mean age of 36 and 37.2 years</font> in men and women, respectively were chosen in selected hospitals of Social Security Organization (SSO). They were randomly categorized into six different classes of service record, age education class of hiring (permanent and contractual), marital status, and gender. The variables assessed via the classification groups were as follows: interpersonal relations, working conditions, equity, pay, job security, supervision, advancement, recognition, responsibility, and attractiveness of job, educational and organizational policies.</span></font></p><p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="color: blue font-size: 10pt">Results:</span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt mso-ansi-language: EN-CA">Bachelor’s degree (65%) or higher were the education degrees of most participants. Significant relations were observed regarding age, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt">marital status, hiring, gender and years of service with promotion, recognition, responsibility, attractiveness of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"><font size="2"> </font></span>job, education, relations, working condition, equity, salary, job security, supervision and organizational policies. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 10pt mso-ansi-language: EN-CA">There were significant relations with hire status and degree with advancement and other variables. There were significant relations between</span><span style="font-size: 10pt"> marital status, gender, years of service and age with the above variables.</span></font></p><p align="left"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font><font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><span style="color: blue font-size: 10pt">Conclusion: </span></i></b><span style="font-size: 10pt">The results show that the important variables that influence motivational factors are academic degree, hire status, marital status, gender, age and years of service.</span></font></p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"> </font> Motivation, hospital, motivational factors, social security 170 174 http://caspjim.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-73-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 alireza heidarian alireza.h120@gmail.com 10031947532846003577 10031947532846003577 Yes Management of Social Security in Mazandaran, Ghaemshahr, Iran seyed Ebrahim Jafari-Kelarijani jafari.ebrahim5@ gmail.com 10031947532846003578 10031947532846003578 No Management of Social Security in Mazandaran, Ghaemshahr, Iran reza jamshidi mkhrshidi1348@yahoo.com 10031947532846003579 10031947532846003579 No Management of Social Security in Mazandaran, Ghaemshahr, Iran mohammad khorshidi jamshidi.reza@yahoo.com 10031947532846003580 10031947532846003580 No Management of Social Security in Mazandaran, Ghaemshahr, Iran