Work and Motivation - (Jossey-Bass Classics) by Victor H Vroom (Paperback)

About the Book

This landmark work in industrial and organizational psychology, originally published in 1964, integrates the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior--and includes a complete 26-page bibliography--to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance. In this edition, the author includes an extensive new introduction that highlights and updates his model for current organizational behavior educators, students, and professionals.

Book Synopsis

Why do people choose the careers they do? What factors cause peopleto be satisfied with their work? No single work did more to makeconcepts like motive, goal incentive, and attitude part of theworkplace vocabulary.

This landmark work, originally published in 1964, integrates thework of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior toexplain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance.Includes an extensive new introduction that highlights and updateshis model for current organization behavior educators and students, as well as professionals who must extract the highest levels ofproductivity from today's downsized workforces.

From the Back Cover

Why do people choose the careers they do? What factors cause people to be satisfied with their work? No single work did more to make concepts like motive, goal incentive, and attitude part of the workplace vocabulary."A comprehensive and critical summary of the morass of studies about why people work."--Contemporary Psychology

Review Quotes

"Highly recommAnded for the theorist, the empirical investigator, and the student in occupational behavioral science. It is the besttreatise on this topic that this reviewer has seen."

"A comprehensive and critical summary of the morass of studiesabout why people work."

About the Author

VICTOR H. VROOM is the John G. Searle Professor of Organization and Management, Yale University, and president of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is the author of nine books and over fifty articles and has received awards for his research from the American Psychological Association, the McKinsey Foundation, and the Ford Foundation. An international expert on leadership and decision making, Vroom has served as a consultant to many government agencies and to more than 100 major corporations in the United States and abroad.