Frederick Herzberg

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Frederick Irving Herzberg (born April 18, 1923 in Lynn , Massachusetts , † January 19, 2000 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) was a distinguished American professor of ergonomics and clinical psychology . He put forward the two-factor theory of human needs.

Life

Frederick Herzberg is the child of the Jewish emigrants Gertrude and Lewis Herzberg from Lithuania . He spent his youth in New York City . At 16 he passed the entrance exam for the prestigious City College of New York (CCNY). At the age of 22, as a non-commissioned officer in World War II, he was one of the first among the liberators of the Dachau concentration camp . Herzberg was responsible there for the procurement and provision of medical care for the inmates saved from mass extermination. As an award he received the bronze star and the Combat Infantryman's Badge .

In 1944 he married Shirley Bedell of Holden, Massachusetts. Son Mark was born in 1948. His wife graduated from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1961, at the age of 40, as the first female medical student . She became a well-known pediatrician in Salt Lake City and passed away in 1997.

In 1946 Frederick I. Herzberg received a Bachelor of Science from the City College of New York and then moved to the University of Pittsburgh to receive his Master of Science in clinical psychology and ergonomics there in 1949 . 1950 followed the academic degree of the doctor . The subject of his dissertation was the use of electric shocks ( Prognostic variables for electroshock therapy ).

From 1951 to 1957, Herzberg was head of research at the Psychological Service of Pittsburgh (now PSP Human Resource Development ). In 1957 he moved to Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland as senior professor of psychology . Here he founded and headed the Department of Industrial Mental Health . As a result of his studies on the relationship between the satisfaction of needs in the workplace and job satisfaction , he presented his content theory of "two factors" ( two-factor theory , also motivator hygiene theory or Herzberg theory ) for the first time in his book The Motivation to Work ahead.

As a military advisor, he studied the needs of officers in the 1960s. In 1964 he received Fulbright membership in Finland and conducted studies in more than 20 countries, including at the university in Soviet Leningrad . On June 20, 1975, Frederick Herzberg spoke at the Canadian Institute of Management's annual conference in Toronto . In the 1970s and 1980s, he carried out a job enrichment project for Air Force logistics management.

In 1994 he received the prestigious Service Award from the University of Utah for the academic year 1993/94. In 1995, Herzberg's book Work and the Nature of Man was listed in the international press as one of the ten most important books on management theory of the 20th century. Also in 1995 he was named Cummins Engine Professor of Management .

From 1972 until his death in 2000 he was a professor at the University of Utah , the College of Business . For 20 years he worked as a consultant for governments and companies such as BP , IBM , AT&T , General Motors and the American Institute of Research worldwide. Prior to retirement, he donated his collection of personal records, official correspondence, office records, teaching materials, and more to the University of Utah's Marriott Library .

Publications

  • The motivation to work . 1959.
  • Herzberg on motivation . 1988.
  • The Managerial Choice: To Be Efficient and to Be Human . 1976.
  • One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees? . 1968.
  • Work and the Nature of Man . 1966.
  • The motivation to work . 1959 (co-authors: Bernard Mausner and Barbara Bloch Snyderman).
  • Job attitudes: Review of research and opinion. In: Psychological Service of Pittsburgh . 1957.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.deseretnews.com/article/739543/Frederick-Herzberg-former-U-professor-dies.html
personal data
SURNAME Herzberg, Frederick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herzberg, Frederick Irving
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynn (Massachusetts) , USA
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2000
Place of death Salt Lake City , Utah, USA