Motivation Theorists
Taylor
- Money = motivation
- Pay based on output
- Use quickest method
- Not always best – quality suffers
- View people as machines
Mayo – Hawthorne Papers
- Working conditions
- Skills
- Financial incentives
- Communication/Teamwork
- Seen as bias to managers manipulating employees
- Communication doesn’t always work
Maslow
- Physiological
- Safety
- Love and belonging
- Estate
- Self-actualization
- Fit more than one
- Knock downs can be taken hard by employees
Herzberg
- Motivators: promotional, sense of achievement, responsibility and nature of role
- Hygiene factors: pay, conditions, policy, treatment and development