Background
Herzberg, Frederick was born on April 18, 1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Lewis and Gertrude Ann (Copleman) Herzberg.
( Quality work that fosters job satisfaction and health e...)
Quality work that fosters job satisfaction and health enjoys top priority in industry all over the world. This was not always so. Until recently analysis of job attitudes focused primarily on human relations problems within organizations. While American industry was trying to solve the unsolvable problem of avoiding interpersonal dissatisfaction, problems with the potential for solution, such as training and quality production, were ignored. When first published, The Motivation to Work challenged the received wisdom by showing that worker fulfillment came from achievement and growth within the job itself. In his new introduction, Herzberg examines thirty years of motivational research in job-related areas. Based on workers' accounts of real events that have made them feel good or bad on the job, the findings of Herzberg and his colleagues have stimulated research and controversy that continue to the present day. The authors surprisingly found that while a poor work environment generated discontent, improved conditions seldom brought about improved attitudes. Instead, satisfaction came most often from factors intrinsic to work: achievements, job recognition, and work that was challenging, interesting, and responsible. The evidence marshaled by this volume called into question many previous assumptions about job satisfaction and worker motivation. Feelings about intrinsic and extrinsic factors could not be validly averaged on a single scale of measurement. Motivation and performance are not merely dependent upon environmental needs and external rewards. Frederick Herzberg and his staff based their motivation—hygiene theory on a variety of human needs and applied it to a strategy of job enrichment that has widely influenced motivation and job design strategies. Motivation to Work is a landmark volume that is of enduring interest to sociologists, psychologists, labor studies specialists, and organization analysts.
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( Quality work that fosters job satisfaction and health ...)
Quality work that fosters job satisfaction and health enjoys top priority in industry all over the world. This was not always so. Until recently analysis of job attitudes focused primarily on human relations problems within organizations. While American industry was trying to solve the unsolvable problem of avoiding interpersonal dissatisfaction, problems with the potential for solution, such as training and quality production, were ignored. When first published, The Motivation to Work challenged the received wisdom by showing that worker fulfillment came from achievement and growth within the job itself. In his new introduction, Herzberg examines thirty years of motivational research in job-related areas. Based on workers' accounts of real events that have made them feel good or bad on the job, the findings of Herzberg and his colleagues have stimulated research and controversy that continue to the present day. The authors surprisingly found that while a poor work environment generated discontent, improved conditions seldom brought about improved attitudes. Instead, satisfaction came most often from factors intrinsic to work: achievements, job recognition, and work that was challenging, interesting, and responsible. The evidence marshaled by this volume called into question many previous assumptions about job satisfaction and worker motivation. Feelings about intrinsic and extrinsic factors could not be validly averaged on a single scale of measurement. Motivation and performance are not merely dependent upon environmental needs and external rewards. Frederick Herzberg and his staff based their motivation?hygiene theory on a variety of human needs and applied it to a strategy of job enrichment that has widely influenced motivation and job design strategies. Motivation to Work is a landmark volume that is of enduring interest to sociologists, psychologists, labor studies specialists, and organization analysts.
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psychologist sociologist university professor
Herzberg, Frederick was born on April 18, 1923 in Lynn, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Lewis and Gertrude Ann (Copleman) Herzberg.
Bachelor of Specialized Studies, City College of New York, 1946. Master of Science, University Pittsburgh, 1949. Doctor of Philosophy, University Pittsburgh, 1950.
Master of Public Health, University Pittsburgh, 1951.
He is most famous for introducing job enrichment and the Motivator-Hygiene theory. His 1968 publication "One More Time, How Do You Motivate Employees?" had sold 1.2 million reprints by 1987 and was the most requested article from the Harvard Business Review. Herzberg started his research on organizations in the 1950s.
He worked at the University of Utah, where he remained until he retired.
Prior to his move to Utah, Herzberg was professor of management at Case Western Reserve University, where he established the Department of Industrial Mental Health. In his lifetime, Herzberg had consulted for many organizations as well as for the United States and other foreign governments.
He has a son who currently lives in West New New York Herzberg proposed the motivator-hygiene theory, also known as the two-factor theory of job satisfaction.
According to his theory, people are influenced by two sets of factors.
The idea is that hygiene factors will not motivate, but if they are not there, they can lower motivation. These factors could be anything from clean toilets and comfortable chairs, to a reasonable level of pay and job security. Motivational factors will not necessarily lower motivation, but can be responsible for increasing motivation.
These factors could involve job recognition, potential for promotion or even the work in itself.
Hodgetts, Richard M. Luthans, Fred Doctorate. Doh, Jonathan P. (2006).
International Management: Culture, Strategy, and Behavior (6th ed). Boston: McGraw-Hill.
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Served with Army of the United States, 1943-1946. Research scientist United States Public Health Service, 1953. Member American Association of University Professors, Sigma Xi, Psi Chi.
Married Shirley Bedell, June 1, 1944. 1 child, Mark Allen.