Herzberg’s two factor theory
Professor Fresd Herzberg was born in 1923 and died in 2000. His idea of motivation in theory is that the theory stems from research conducted in the 1950s into factors affecting workers’ job satisfaction and dissatisfaction. This was carried out on 200 accountants and engineers in Pennsylvania, USA. Although, the sample was limited, however, Herzberg’s conclusion remained influential to this day.
His research was asked to employees to describe recent events that had given rise to exceptionally good feelings about their jobs, and then looked into the reasons why. Five factors stand out as strong so as to conclude of job satisfactions which he had wrote in the 1966, ‘achievement, recognition for achievement, the work itself, responsibility and advancement-the last three being greater importance of a lasting change in attitude. He pointed out that these factors is concerned with the job itself rather than pay or status and called these five factors the motivators.
The research then went to ask about events that had given rise to exceptionally bad feelings about their jobs. Herzberg stated that ‘the major dissatisfies were company policy and administration, supervision salary, interpersonal relations and working conditions’. He said that the theme was factors that ’surround the job’ rather than the job itself and named theses five dissatisfies the ‘hygiene factors’.
His research was asked to employees to describe recent events that had given rise to exceptionally good feelings about their jobs, and then looked into the reasons why. Five factors stand out as strong so as to conclude of job satisfactions which he had wrote in the 1966, ‘achievement, recognition for achievement, the work itself, responsibility and advancement-the last three being greater importance of a lasting change in attitude. He pointed out that these factors is concerned with the job itself rather than pay or status and called these five factors the motivators.
The research then went to ask about events that had given rise to exceptionally bad feelings about their jobs. Herzberg stated that ‘the major dissatisfies were company policy and administration, supervision salary, interpersonal relations and working conditions’. He said that the theme was factors that ’surround the job’ rather than the job itself and named theses five dissatisfies the ‘hygiene factors’.