Does Job Enrichment Really Pay off?

See Paul William J. Jr. Robertson Keith B. Herzberg Frederick , “Job Enrichment Pays Off,” Harvard Business Review, (March-April, 1969), pp. 61–78.

See Bockman Valerie M. , “The Herzberg Controversy,” Personnel Psychology (Vol. 24, No. 2, 1971), pp. 155–189.

See Schoderbek Peter P. Reif William E. , Job Enlargement (Ann Arbor, Michigan: Bureau of Industrial Relations, Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Michigan, 1969).

Rush Harold M. F. , “Behavioral Science—Concepts and Management Application,” Studies in Personnel Policy, No. 216 (New York: National Industrial Conference Board, 1969).

Fein Mitchell , Approaches to Motivation (Hillsdale, N.J.: 1970), p. 20.

Ford Robert N. , Motivation Through the Work Itself (New York: American Management Association, Inc., 1969), p. 188.

Ibid., p. 189.

Kennedy James E. O'Neill Harry E. , “Job Content and Workers' Opinions,” Journal of Applied Psychology (Vol. 42, No. 6, 1958), p. 375.

Hulin Charles L. Blood Milton R. , “Job Enlargement, Individual Differences, and Worker Responses,” Psychological Bulletin (Vol. 69, No. 1, 1968), p. 50.

See Herzberg Frederick , Work and the Nature of Man (Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1966); also, McGregor Douglas , Leadership and Motivation (The MIT Press, 1966); also Likert Rensis , The Human Organization (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1967); also Argyris Chris , Personality and Organization (New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1957); also Argyris Chris , Integrating the Individual and the Organization (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1964); and Blake Robert Mouton Jane , Corporate Excellence Through Grid Organizational Development (Houston: Gulf Publishing Company, 1968).

McGregor Douglas , op. cit., p. 40.

Paul Robertson Herzberg , op. cit.

Fein Mitchell , op. cit., p. 15.

Schoderbek Peter P. Reif William E. , op. cit., pp 41–72.

Rush Harold M. F. , Job Design for Motivation, Conference Board Report, No. 515 (New York: The Conference Board, Inc., 1971), p. 10.

Smith Patricia C. , “The Prediction of Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Industrial Monotony,” Journal of Applied Psychology (Vol. 39, No. 5, 1955), pp. 322–329; also Smith Patricia C. Lem Charles , “Positive Aspects of Motivation in Repetitive Work: Effects of Lot Size Upon Spacing of Voluntary Work Stoppages,” Journal of Applied Psychology (Vol. 39, No. 5, 1955), pp. 330–333; also Kilbridge Maurice D. , “Do Workers Prefer Larger Jobs?” Personnel (Sept.-Oct., 1960), pp. 45–48; also Baldamus Wilhelm , Efficiency and Effort: An Analysis of Industrial Administration (London: Tavistock Publications, 1967); also Vroom Victor H. , Some Personality Determinants of the Effects of Participation (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1960); also Turner Arthur N. Miclette Amelia L. , “Sources of Satisfaction in Repetitive Work,” Occupational Psychology (Vol. 36, No. 4, 1962), pp. 215–231; and Kornhauser Arthur W. , Mental Health of the Industrial Worker: A Detroit Study (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1965).

Reif William E. Schoderbek Peter P. , “Job Enlargement: Antidote to Apathy,” Management of Personnel Quarterly (Spring, 1966), pp. 16–23.

Hulin Blood , op. cit.

Fein Mitchell , op. cit., p. 31.

Ibid., p. 37.

McClelland David C. Winter David J. , Motivating Economic Achievement (New York: The Free Press, 1969).

Hulin Blood , op. cit., p. 49.

Davis Louis E. , “The Design of Jobs,” Industrial Relations (October, 1966), pp. 21–45.

Herzberg , op. cit.

Barnard Chester I. , The Functions of the Executive (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1938), p. 119.

Reif Schoderbek , op. cit., pp. 16–23.

Ibid., pp. 64–70.

Barnard Chester I. , op. cit., p. 77.