Motivation At Work by Hywell Murrell

This book will be rather different from the others in the series in that it will be dealing very largely with activities which have been carried out by people other than psychologists. It is true that some psychologists have studied and written about motivation as it affects industry and have even experimented on the shop floor, but on the whole the ideas and activities which will be reported upon herein have emanated mainly from industrial management within industry itself, with some help from researchers and others with affiliations to sociological or management departments in universities. This does not mean that psychologists should not be very well aware of what has been happening over very nearly the last hundred years, since developments have followed a fairly logical sequence and anyone wishing to involve himself in the industrial scene must be conversant with what has gone before, whatever its origin.