I'm (obviously) in a large 800 or so bed university hospital that is both a community hospital and a university teaching hospital. As far as I can determine, the morale of medical technologist staff is directly proportional to the degree to which the supervisory technologists and laboratory directors (usually physicians) work as a team, including the staff in the trenches in decision making and policies.

If the staff feel they are appreciated and an important part of the health care team, that helps enormously. Of course, pay and parking are always issues :), but my experience is that you have to create an adverse work environment to discourage the idealism and professionalism that almost all medical technologists bring to their work. The same dichotomy often exists in other clinical settings such as physicians and nurses.