What motivates employees 263 What motivates employees according to over 40 years of motivation surveys (original) (raw)

The relationship between people and their work has long attracted psychologists and other behavioural scientists. Psychologists' interests, dating back to the early years of the twentieth century, reflect the development of the industrial psychology and vocational guidance disciplines. Their work dealt with measurement of aptitudes and abilities to improve the job-person fit. The study of motivation now forms an integral part of both industrial and vocational psychology. However, in both fields, concepts like need, motive, goal, incentive and attitude are appearing with greater frequency than are the concepts of aptitude, ability and skill (Vroom, 1995, p. 4).