{"id":77982,"date":"2025-11-14T20:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/two-factor-theory-of-motivation-herzbergs-theory-of-two-factors\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:08:27","slug":"two-factor-theory-of-motivation-herzbergs-theory-of-two-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/two-factor-theory-of-motivation-herzbergs-theory-of-two-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-factor theory of motivation (Herzberg&#8217;s theory of two factors)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a psychological theory developed by the American psychologist Frederick Herzberg in 1959. According to this theory, employee satisfaction and productivity are influenced by hygienic (see Hygienic Factors in Chapter 2.10: Key Psychological Concepts in Work Psychology) and motivational factors (see Motivational Factors in Chapter 2.10: Key Psychological Concepts in Work Psychology). The theory is based on the results of Herzberg&#8217;s study among 200 engineers and accountants of an industrial enterprise: participants were asked what brings them satisfaction from work, and what, on the contrary, causes dissatisfaction.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a psychological theory developed by the American psychologist Frederick Herzberg in 1959. According to this theory, employee satisfaction and productivity are influenced by hygienic (see Hygienic Factors in Chapter 2.10: Key Psychological Concepts in Work Psychology) and motivational factors (see Motivational Factors in Chapter 2.10: Key Psychological Concepts in Work Psychology). The theory is based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-work-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}