by: Christine Zafra

As seen here on this website (previous post), Douglas McGregor created a theory regarding job motivation. Now, another theoretician made his own hypothesis about it. Frederick Herzberg, a prominent psychologist who has published his own book regarding job motivation, said that hygiene is the key to every office that has motivated employees. If you think hygiene refers to the physical cleanliness of the office, well, it’s more than that. It requires cleanliness in the organization (people-related), policies, management (type of leadership), working conditions, job security and so on and so forth. Basically, it envelopes all the qualities of a “perfect” job arena. Can managers really do that?

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