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Disengaged Employees? Do Something About It

Harvard Business Review

At the end of her post, Gavett refers to an HBR classic on employee motivation, in which the famed management psychologist Frederick Herzberg argued that workers respond positively to more responsibility and authority in their daily tasks. Employee retention Human resources Leading teams Managing people'

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May the Force — of Inspiring Leadership — Be with You

The Practical Leader

Less effective managers see “their people” as coin-operated human resources (assets with skin) to be manipulated with money. In his seminal 1959 book, The Motivation to Work , Psychologist Frederick Herzberg outlined his Motivator-Hygiene Theory.