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Frederick Herzberg

Management Theorist

An American psychologist who developed the two-factor (motivator-hygiene) theory of workplace motivation and the concept of job enrichment; his 1968 Harvard Business Review article became one of that publication's most-requested reprints. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Date
1923-04-18 1
Death Date
2000-01-19 1
Birthplace
Lynn, Massachusetts, U.S. 1
Death Place
Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. 1
Nationality
American 1
Defining Contribution
Developed the two-factor (motivator-hygiene) theory of job satisfaction and the concept of job enrichment. 1
Notable Work
The Motivation to Work (1959, with Bernard Mausner and Barbara B. Snyderman) 1
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    had sold 1.2 million reprints by 1987 and was the most requested article
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