Frederick Herzberg quotes
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“If you want someone to do a good job, give them a good job to do.”
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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 HerzbergSource : Frederick Herzberg (1982). “The managerial choice: to be efficient and to be human”
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“True motivation comes from achievement, personal development, job satisfaction, and recognition.”
-- Frederick HerzbergSource : "Financial Times Handbook of Management". P. 229. Book by Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove, 2004.
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“Idleness, indifference and irresponsibility are healthy responses to absurd work.”
-- Frederick HerzbergSource : "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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“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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“A reward once given becomes a right.”
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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
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“The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.”
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“Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.”
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“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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Source : "Our Generation Against Nuclear War". Book by Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos, 1983.
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