Abstract
Not so many years ago, concern with work related attitudes of Americans was confined almost exclusively to management publications, course in Industrial Psychology and a few scholarly publications. In the immediate past, however, these attitudes have become a major topic of public discussion, as well as becoming of growing importance to industry in that they offer clues to management in the never ending hunt for ways of motivating workers. The purpose of this study was to replicate the Herzberg study which led to his Two-Factor Theory, but using blue-collar employees as subjects. The objectives of this study were many fold. They were aimed at determining the factors that are responsible for positive attitudes as well as negative attitudes for the total population of this survey, and for the subjects from each separate industry. It was also intended to compare companies with one another and also with a total population. The study was also aimed at comparing the differences in attitudes due to sex, age and sector. One hundred and thirty-eight blue-collar workers from five different industries located in three central Texas cities were interviewed for critical incidents involving exceptionally high and exceptionally low feelings, following the technique of Herzberg's semi-structured interviews and the Factors-Attitudes-Effects complex. Three of the industries were from the private sector, two of them being manufacturing concerns and the other a wholesale grocery distribution company. The organization in the public sector included an academic institution of higher learning and a small city government..
Rao, Yimadabattuni Venkateswara (1976). Job satisfaction and job motivation. Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -508615.