human resource management
... The important implication of this is the realization that elimination of a dissatisfaction does not automatically provide a satisfaction. If you, as a manager, eliminate a dissatisfaction for your workers, you should not assume that you have created a satisfaction. You have only eliminated a dissatisfaction. For example ,Herzberg listed compensation inequities as a common source of dissatisfaction. A compensation inequity occurs when you pay two workers doing a highly similar job, highly dissimilar compensations. what you have is unfirmess, an inequity , a dissatisfaction. This kind of dissatisfaction is a common one and has noting to do with whether your company is the highest-paying or lowest-paying company in town. If ou do the proper thing and eliminate this inequity , using soud wage and salary administration, you will only have eliminated a dissatisfaction. Another source of dissatisfaction in many organizations relates to the supervisory relationship caused by managers using the rude approach. If this is a source of dissatisfaction to workers you can take steps to eliminate it by teaching the managers to smile a lot, be friendly, and not to scream so much. If you succeed, you will merely eliminate a dissatisfaction. The same thing relates to working conditions. You may have complaints that the work area is hot in summer and cold in winter, that the old paint is grimy, and that the seats are hard and worn. If you take steps to improve these conditions by making it warm in the winter and cool in the summer, pai nting the walls , and replacing the seats with softer onesm and even providing music, you certainly have taken steps to eliminate dissatisfactions. But according to Herzberg’s theory, you have not created a satisfaction or motivator. When you eliminate these dissatisfiers you are merely cleaning up the environment . Herzberg refers to these activities as pmproving the hygiene factors. For example picture yourself with a cavity in one of your teeth. If you thke the positive action of brushing your teeth three times a day you may be successful in preventing the cavity form getting any worsem and yoiur breath may be successful in preventing the cavity from getting any worsem and your breath may smell nicerm but your efforts did not fill the cavity or make it go away. Herzberg labeled the satisfiers as motivators because they had the positive effect of increasing the individual’s output. Of these satisfiers he found achievement to be the single strongest motivator. Herzberg said that people are not motivated by failure; they are motivated by achievement. Small achievements act as motivators for someone to go on to ruy to achieve a little bit more. This achievement is the perception that occurs in a person’s mind that he or she has done something...