Theories of Motivation
• F Taylor: When Taylor began his work on scientific management, workers generally used the methods and tools they felt were best suited to the task. Taylor realized that production could be increased by standardizing this system of work. Eventually, Taylor devised his famous theory on scientific management. Taylor broke each job down into specific tasks and timed how long it took a worker to do each task. He then specified exactly how each task was to be done and what tools to use. Workers were trained to do each task in a particular way. Henry Ford worked with Taylor to develop the first assembly line. Taylor also believed that workers were motivated primarily by money, so he also developed the idea that workers should …show more content…
2) Psychological needs: the need for personal development fulfilled by activities which cause one to grow.
He identified this as the Adam and Abraham Concept where Adam is animal and wants to avoid pain or discomfort, but Abraham is human and needs to go beyond the physical requirements and expand psychologically too.
Although his critics argued that worker satisfaction does not necessarily lead to higher productivity, his theories are used by many modern companies who want to increase worker satisfaction and retention rates.
Probably one of the most important ideas that Herzberg postulated based on his findings of satisfaction is that of ‘job enrichment’. This is the addition of different tasks to a job to provide greater involvement and interaction with that job. It is obviously a continuous management process:
The job must use the full ability of the employee and provide them with sufficient challenge
Any employee who demonstrates an increasing level of ability should be given correspondingly increasing levels of …show more content…
These extended models have instead been inferred by others from Maslow's work. Specifically Maslow refers to the needs Cognitive, Aesthetic and Transcendence (subsequently shown as distinct needs levels in some interpretations of his theory) as additional aspects of motivation, but not as distinct levels in the Hierarchy of Needs. Where Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is shown with more than five levels these models have been extended through interpretation of Maslow's work by other people. Each of us is motivated by needs. Our most basic needs are inborn, having evolved over tens of thousands of years. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs helps to explain how these needs motivate us
• F Taylor: When Taylor began his work on scientific management, workers generally used the methods and tools they felt were best suited to the task. Taylor realized that production could be increased by standardizing this system of work. Eventually, Taylor devised his famous theory on scientific management. Taylor broke each job down into specific tasks and timed how long it took a worker to do each task. He then specified exactly how each task was to be done and what tools to use. Workers were trained to do each task in a particular way. Henry Ford worked with Taylor to develop the first assembly line. Taylor also believed that workers were motivated primarily by money, so he also developed the idea that workers should …show more content…
2) Psychological needs: the need for personal development fulfilled by activities which cause one to grow.
He identified this as the Adam and Abraham Concept where Adam is animal and wants to avoid pain or discomfort, but Abraham is human and needs to go beyond the physical requirements and expand psychologically too.
Although his critics argued that worker satisfaction does not necessarily lead to higher productivity, his theories are used by many modern companies who want to increase worker satisfaction and retention rates.
Probably one of the most important ideas that Herzberg postulated based on his findings of satisfaction is that of ‘job enrichment’. This is the addition of different tasks to a job to provide greater involvement and interaction with that job. It is obviously a continuous management process:
The job must use the full ability of the employee and provide them with sufficient challenge
Any employee who demonstrates an increasing level of ability should be given correspondingly increasing levels of …show more content…
These extended models have instead been inferred by others from Maslow's work. Specifically Maslow refers to the needs Cognitive, Aesthetic and Transcendence (subsequently shown as distinct needs levels in some interpretations of his theory) as additional aspects of motivation, but not as distinct levels in the Hierarchy of Needs. Where Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is shown with more than five levels these models have been extended through interpretation of Maslow's work by other people. Each of us is motivated by needs. Our most basic needs are inborn, having evolved over tens of thousands of years. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs helps to explain how these needs motivate us