Herzberg, Frederick, Mausner, Bernard, Snyderman, Barbara
- topic: leadership & management and personnel management
- period: 1959
In the late 1950's, the American psychologists Herzberg, Mausner and Snyderman, analysed the foundations of job motivation based on a large-scale literature review and a survey amongst 200 engineers and accountants from the Pittsburgh area. They challenged the traditional view that workers are only satisfied or dissatisfied with their...