Hygiene factors
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Hygiene factors are job factors that can cause dissatisfaction if missing but do not necessarily motivate employees if increased [1].
Hygiene factors have mostly to do with the job environment [2]. These factors are important or notable only when they are lacking.
Hygiene factors are part of Frederick Herzberg's theory on job motivation.
[edit] List of Hygiene Factors
This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Note that these factors are extrinsic from the job itself. [2]
- Company policy and administration
- Supervision [2]
- Working conditions [2]
- Interpersonal relations(co-workers)
- Company Policies [2]
- Salary [2]
- Status
- Job security
(Herzberg called them hygiene factors because they prevent dissatisfaction only when present instead of increasing satisfaction; just as hygiene prevents disease only when present rather than increasing well-being.)
[edit] References
Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash: The concept of a hygiene factor in a religious text being something that could be used in a purge to "cleanse" a faction out of the religion.
