Hertzberg's Two Factor Theory Of Motivation

A motivated employee wants to achieve its goals. Therefore it does the best it can to accomplish those goals or targets. Without any motivation from others an employee cannot fulfill a goal or target that can benefit the firm. There are very basic points to outline that an employee is motivated like taking responsibility, helping other employees and also having a positive attitude to other employees and the firm.

However there can be negative behaviors that show demotivated employees. These include poor timekeeping, high levels of absenteeism meaning that the employee is regularly not coming in to work, avoid to take responsibility for their own acts or for an assignment and poor customer service which can have a very negative impact to

One of them is known for its famous triangular like hierarchy. It is called Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and the other is called Hertzberg’s two-factor theory.

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Many managers lacked ways to keep their employees motivated when it comes to their work. But Abraham Maslow created a great theory to help motivate employees and to satisfy their needs. The theory is called the Maslow hierarchy of needs. The five factors in the hierarchy are self-actualization, esteem needs, love and belonging, safety and security and physiology needs.

The physiological needs that are at the base of the pyramid are the day-to-day essentials that everyone needs and has the right to have by being provided enough money from the work place. This essential has a huge impact on employees and major problems can occur if these needs are not taken into consideration. These needs can be things like food, home, rest, warmth and other. These are to be known as the basic

Herzberg’s theory is set to be a basic theory and less sophisticated like Maslow’s. Herzberg’s consist of 2 main factors. Positive and negative factors. Also called satisfactions and dissatisfactions.

Herzberg split the two factors to hygiene and motivation. The motivation factor is known to increase the overall performance and quality of the business. The hygiene factor is more personnel to the employee. The hygiene factor includes quality of supervision, pay, company policies, physical working conditions, relation with others and job security where as the motivation factors include promotions, opportunities, recognition and responsibility.

Both of the theories link in many ways. Maslow’s theory splits all aspects up into different factors where as Herzberg’s splits them into two factors. Herzberg’s hygiene factor mostly relates to the physiological needs and the safety and security needs and the social needs. This is because the hygiene needs focuses on physical working conditions, which relate to safety needs and physiological needs. Again in the hygiene needs job security is another aspect, which is one of the 5 stages in Maslow’s hierarchy. Also in Herzberg’s theory pay is one aspect under the hygiene factor and pay goes under the physiological needs in Maslow’s