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Keeping the workers happy — and productive!

Industrial Management

ISSN: 0007-6929

Article publication date: 1 March 1979

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Abstract

Professor Tom Kempner, of the Henley Administrative Staff College, looks at the way in which academic theories on motivation and behaviour have been modified by management ‘pragmatists’ who argue that improvements in workplace environment don't necessarily result in greater productiveness.

Citation

(1979), "Keeping the workers happy — and productive!", Industrial Management, Vol. 79 No. 3, pp. 31-43. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb056930

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MCB UP Ltd

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