The study and philosophical critique of Frederick Herzberg's two-factor theory from a symbolic-interpretative viewpoint

Frederick Herzberg was a psychologist who presented a theory of two-factor health-motivational in 1975. Herzberg's theory has identified a set of factors that discribes job dissatisfaction, which introduces these factors as a maintenance factors ( in some articles has been defined as Hygiene Fa...

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Main Authors: mahnaz keshtkar rajabi, Ali Akbar Etebarian
Format: Article
Language:fas
Published: Allameh Tabataba'i University Press 2018-09-01
Series:مطالعات مدیریت بهبود و تحول
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Online Access:https://jmsd.atu.ac.ir/article_9094_39b6c1b75d7af4c502f998ddd586a5bd.pdf
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Summary:Frederick Herzberg was a psychologist who presented a theory of two-factor health-motivational in 1975. Herzberg's theory has identified a set of factors that discribes job dissatisfaction, which introduces these factors as a maintenance factors ( in some articles has been defined as Hygiene Factors). He also describes the set of factors that cause job satisfaction and motivation in the job as motivating factors (in some articles has been defined as Motivators). Despite the current uses of this theory, more criticisms have been made by experts on this theory from a different perspectives . Accordingly, in the first part of this paper it has tried to explain the subject of motivation and discribe the two-factor theory of Fredrick Herzberg in details. In the second part, it has been studied the philosophical review of the theory from the perspective of ontology, epistemology, nature of human, methodology, and also critique of this theory from a symbolic-interpretative viewpoint.
ISSN:2251-8037
2476-5988