Motivation Theorists

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