From salary to the performance-based remuneration of russian physicians: how motivation at work is changing.2018. - 25 с.

NRU HSE , 2017.

Shishkin S., Temnitsky A.

The paper examines the changes in the physician’s motivation at work during the period of reforms the salary system started since 2008. These reforms have included a shift from fixed salary system to pay for performance remuneration as well as sufficient increase of salary. The data of six surveys of health workers implemented in 2007-2016 were used to reveal the hierarchy of physician’s motives at work and to track their changes during the period of time under consideration. The changes were minor, and the directions of these changes were rather opposite to the expected strengthening of financial motivation at work: the importance of the motive of earning money has moved from the first place. The share of doctors willing to work more and better on the condition of linking salary with labor contribution did not increase. In contrast, almost two-thirds of physicians believe that they are working on a high level of quality and performance. The majority of physicians desire to increase not a stimulating part of the salary but a base, fixed one. Doctors who receive bonuses for the intensity, quality and performance, and who have a higher amount of salary wish to see the share of fixed part of salary higher than it is now available. This is a clear indication of orientation of this professional to strengthening the protective function of the salary rather than to use increased opportunities for earning money.

Keywords: здравоохранение, зарплата, стимулы, врачи, salary, health care, incentives, physicians, performance based remuneration, motivation at work, вознаграждение за работу, мотивация на работе

Publication based on the results of: Directions and mechanisms of developing integrated, transparent and efficient health system (2015)