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Work and Motivation (Jossey-Bass Classics) [Paperback]

Victor H. Vroom (Author)
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0787900303 978-0787900304 November 10, 1994 1
Why do people choose the careers they do? What factors cause people to be satisfied with their work? No single work did more to make concepts like motive, goal incentive, and attitude part of the workplace vocabulary.

This landmark work, originally published in 1964, integrates the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance. Includes an extensive new introduction that highlights and updates his model for current organization behavior educators and students, as well as professionals who must extract the highest levels of productivity from today's downsized workforces.

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"Highly recommAnded for the theorist, the empirical investigator, and the student in occupational behavioral science. It is the best treatise on this topic that this reviewer has seen."

"A comprehensive and critical summary of the morass of studies about why people work."

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Why do people choose the careers they do? What factors cause people to be satisfied with their work? No single work did more to make concepts like motive, goal incentive, and attitude part of the workplace vocabulary.This landmark work, originally published in 1964, integrates the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance. Includes an extensive new introduction that highlights and updates his model for current organization behavior educators and students, as well as professionals who must extract the highest levels of productivity from today's "downsized" workforces.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 397 pages
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (November 10, 1994)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0787900303
  • ISBN-13: 978-0787900304
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,075,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Work and Motivation (Jossey-Bass Classics) (Paperback)
I included this in the literature review portion of my research project on retention and turnover. I enjoyed it so much after borrowing from the library and reading it that I had to have a copy for myself. Vroom does have some valid criticism of Herzberg's conclusions regarding hygiene versus motivation and the two-factor theory, but some is unfounded and even in err. But, in general, this is an outstanding treatment on work and motivation. A classic!
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According to the 1949 edition of the Dictionary of Occupational Titles, Americans are employed in 22,028 different jobs. Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
work role variables, more positively valent, valent outcomes, supervisory consideration, leadership opinion questionnaire, occupational choice process, equitably compensated, industrial social psychology, wage incentive plans, psychological participation, negative induction, group incentive plans, positive induction, low cohesiveness, supervisory behavior, occupational preferences, motivational variables, ineffective performance, chosen occupation, high cohesiveness
Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Strong Vocational Interest Blank, Van Zelst, Western Electric Company, Leadership Opinion Questionnaire, International Harvester, Survey Research Center, World War
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