Medicology Services 
The Science Behind Medicology MTI
Humans have a set of needs that have been clearly defined by psychologists, social scientists and philosophers throughout history. Most predominantly Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs covering the eight key needs, which are:
- Subsistence
- Protection
- Affection
- Understanding
- Participation
- Leisure
- Creation
- Identity
- Freedom
Morale is often defined as the ability of a group of people to maintain a belief in a common institution or goal and while this may sound like an intangible concept, it can be scientifically quantified. This scientific analysis of what causes high or low morale within an institution like an NHS hospital is the building blocks of the Medicology Morale Testing Instrument.
These needs directly affect how you feel about certain things and when applied to a work environment in the modern age, some of these needs can be used to determine what could be affecting your morale. Through an understanding of psychology we can narrow down the many needs of the human psyche to those which affect your morale:
- The work you do
- Your relationships with co-workers
- How our superiors and how they manage us
- The leadership and values of the institution
- Your ability to grow and develop within this environment
- The physical environment in which you spend your time
- What you personally gain from the endevour - salary, security, satisfaction
Without satisfying these needs an employee within an organisation will not have high morale. By examining these needs and formulating a set of questions to thoroughly cover all aspects of the core needs, we can effectively identify what might be causing a person's high or low morale. What makes Medicology MTI truly valuable to you and your organisation is the way in which it assigns value to the answers each participant gives.
Through our unique Morale Rating System Medicology MTI is able to give a true representation of the factors affecting morale. For each element of human needs an individual participant can give an indication of whether this particular factor is of important to them. For example, a nurse working in A&E may be asked if their work environment is a safe and secure place, which if it is not, would adversely affect their morale. The important bit is that this may not affect the morale of this nurse if he was a 20 stone rugby player who trained tigers in his spare time. In this case the participant can indicate that the particular need is of little importance to him and the results would reflect this when showing the reasons for that this individuals high or low morale.
