IN CONTEXT
Work-force effectiveness
1959 US psychologist Frederick Herzberg defines factors in job satisfaction in his study The Motivation to Work.
1960 In his book The Human Side of Enterprise, US academic Douglas McGregor proposes Theory Y, urging companies to adopt a participatory management style that motivates workers to strive to achieve their potential.
1989 US management guru Rosabeth Moss Kanter’s When Giants Learn to Dance suggests that employees are most productive when empowered to make their own decisions.
Staff in many organizations reports feeling undervalued, overstretched, and forced to work in areas beyond its competence. ...
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