QUOTATION 45

FREDRICK HERZBERG ON THE SOURCES OF MOTIVATION (TOP TEN ENTRY)

Use this to help you create the conditions where staff can motivate themselves.

Fredrick Herzberg (1923–2000) was a renowned academic and writer in the field of management studies. He was particularly interested in the factors that motivated people and those that didn’t. One of his most surprising findings was that pay is not the great motivator that many people think it is:

True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction and recognition.

Frederick Herzberg

Herzberg identified a range of factors that had an effect on motivation. Those factors that positively motivated staff he called Motivational Factors. Those that demotivated ...

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