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Frederick Herzberg

“Abstract”
Articles written by third party sources and one article written by Frederick Herzberg himself are covered in this paper. Mr. Herzberg’s theory of management focuses on one area mainly. The area of focus deals with job satisfaction and everything that leads to job satisfaction. Unlike my previous papers, this paper will focus on one main subject. I will try to explain in detail the Herzberg theory.

“Introduction”
The Herzberg theory is the subject of this paper. The purpose of this paper is to explain Mr. Herzberg’s management theory. The background of the Herzberg theory comes from five different sources and those sources all wrote about or either published Mr. Herzberg’s theory. The sources are (Accel-Team, 2005), (Chapman, 2004), (Gawel, 1997) who wrote a paper on the Herzberg theory, (Herzberg, 2003) Mr. Herzberg’s published paper supports my paper and finally (NETMBA, 2005). The scope of this paper will attempt to cover every thing Mr. Herzberg based his theory on. Finally, this paper is organized as close to the Mr. Herzberg’s theory as possible.
“Thesis”
The different methods used to motivate employees are the focus of this paper. Different approaches to employee motivation led Mr. Herzberg to study and write on the subject. This paper will explain those same studies published by Mr. Herzberg, while focusing on employee motivators. This paper will also cover information gained from charts and surveys presented by Mr. Herzberg.
“KITA”
Herzberg begins by looking at three forms of motivation which employ KITA. The first employs physically attacking an employee to motivate them to do as you would like them to, negative physical KITA. The second employs motivation through psychologically or emotionally attacking an employee to get them to do as you would like, negative psychological KITA. Third, bribing an employee with reward or incentive to get the result you would like to, positive KITA. Each approach has it pro’s and con’s. KITA stands...