Frederick Herzberg Quotes

• True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Motivational, Jobs, Achievement

  "Financial Times Handbook of Management". P. 229. Book by Stuart Crainer and ‎Des Dearlove, 2004.

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• It's the job of a manager not to light the fire of motivation, but to create an environment to let each person's personal spark of motivation blaze.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Jobs, Motivation, Fire

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• If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Jobs, Giving, Want

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• Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Powerful, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• It is only when a person has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Motivation, Needs, Want

  Frederick Herzberg (1982). “The managerial choice: to be efficient and to be human”

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• Man does work for profit in order to enjoy pain; but in a positive sense, he works to enjoy the excitement and meaning that achievement provides for his own psychological growth and thereby his happiness.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Pain, Men, Order

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• Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Healthy, Indifference, Absurd

  "Punished by Rewards: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes". Book by Alfie Kohn, p. 205, 1999.

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• A reward once given becomes a right.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Rewards, Given

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• You cannot love an employee into creativity, although you can ... avoid his dissatisfactions with the way you treat him.

  Frederick Herzberg

  Creativity, Way, Treats

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