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Worker Motivation: Unsolved Problem or Untapped Resource?
Rabinowitz, William , Kenneth Falkenbach, Jeffrey R. Travers, C. Glenn Valentine, and Paul Weener
25/2  (Winter 1983): 45-56

A new study of almost eleven thousand hourly employees in thirty-seven firms finds that workers are especially critical of the way they are treated by organizations. But despite complaints about inequities, inadequate opportunities, and lack of communication, workers overwhelmingly regarded their work as a source of personal satisfaction and pride.

 

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