What motivates us for work? Intricate web of factors beyond money and prestige

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Damij, Nadja ^a   Levnajić, Zoran ^a,b   Skrt, Vesna Rejec ^a   Suklan, Jana ^a,b  

^a Faculty of Information Studies in Novo mesto ^*  (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYEE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MOTIVATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALARY; SLOVENIA; WORK ENVIRONMENT; ADULT; AGED; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; EMPLOYMENT; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; SLOVENIA; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; WORK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84941331403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132641     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Ariely D. What makes us feel good about our work[Transcript]; 2012. Riodela Plata: TEDx.
2. Herzberg F. Workers' needs: the same around the world. Ind Week. 1987; 21(9):29-30.
3. Grant AM. Does intrinsic motivation fuel the prosocial fire? Motivational synergy in predicting persistence, performance, and productivity. J Appl Psychol. American Psychological Association; 2008; 93 (1):48.
4. Maslow AH. Personality and motivation. Harlow: Engl Longman. 1954.
5. Herzberg F, Mausner B. Snyderman, The motivation to work. New York. 1959;
6. McClelland DC. The Achieving Society. Harvard University Press; 1961.
7. Vroom V. Work and Motivation. New York: Wiley; 1964.
8. Alderfer CP. Existence, relatedness, and growth: Human needs in organizational settings. New York: Free press; 1972.
9. Locke EA, Shaw KN, Saari LM, Latham GP. Goal setting and task performance: 1969-1980. Psychol Bull. American Psychological Association; 1981; 90(1):125.
10. McGregor D. The human side of enterprise. New York: McGraw-Hill; 1960.
11. McGregor D. New concepts of management. Technology Review. 1961; 63(4): 25-27.
12. Lee DJ, Kruger S, Whang MJ, Uysal M, Sirgy MJ. Validating a customer well-being index related to natural wildlife tourism. Tour Manag. Elsevier. 2014; 45:171-80.
13. Richard A. Job Satisfaction from Herzberg's Two Factor Theory Perspective. Munich, Germany: GRIN Verlag GmbH; 2012.
14. Herzberg F, Mausner B, Snyderman BB. The motivation to work. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers; 2011.
15. Herzberg F. One more time: How do you motivate employees. Boston: Harvard Business Review; 1968.
16. Marginean S. Globalization, Technology And Competitiveness: From Industrial Revolution To Knowledge Economy. Rev Econ. 2009; 47(4-5):114-119.
17. Hardin E. Perceived and actual change in job satisfaction. J Appl Psychol. 1965; 49(5):363. PMID: 5828987
18. Hulin CL, Smith PC. A linear model of job satisfaction. J Appl Psychol.1965; 49(3):209.
19. Evans MG, McKee D. Some effects of internal versus external orientations upon the relationship between various aspects of job satisfaction. J Appl Psychol. 1970; 2(1):17-24.
20. Bassett-Jones N, Lloyd GC. Does Herzberg's motivation theory have staying power? J Manag Dev. 2005; 24(10):929-943.
21. Hoseyni SN, Mirzaei M, Faryabi R, Ardekan M, Mohsen A, Shaker Ardekani M, et al. Effective Factors in Job Motivation of Faculty Members in Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences: an Application of Herzberg's Motivation Theory. Iran J Med Educ. 2014; 13(12):1040-1050.
22. Jansen A, Samuel MO. Achievement of Organisational Goals and Motivation of Middle Level Managers within the Context of the Two-Factor Theory. Mediterr J Soc Sci. 2014; 5(16):53-59.
23. Manjunath S, Urs V. Critical analysis of motivators and hygiene factors with special reference to employees of private and public sector banks in India. Int J Manag Soc Sci. 2014; 2(6):28-43.
24. Sithole B, Solomon G. Business Studies Teachers' Satisfaction with Their Work: An Application of Herszberg's Two Factor Theory. 2014;6(3):435-444.
25. Zinovieva IL. Why do people work if they are not paid? An example from Eastern Europe. Michigan: The William Davidson Institute; 1998.
26. Lange HC. Those Capitalist Demons! Anti-Market Bias in Buffy The Vampire Slayer. In: McCobin A, editor. J Lib Soc; 2009;1:pp. 6-1227.
27. Batagelj V, Mrvar A. Pajek-program for large network analysis. 1998;21(2):47-57.
28. Wasserman S. Social network analysis: Methods and applications. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1994.
29. Newman M. Networks: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 2010.