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This course was written by Ben Oakley and Jacky Hinton in 2014 and updated by Alex Twitchen in 2022.

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Text

Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory, adapted from Everard et al., 2009, pp. 88–90 and Everard and Wilson, 2004

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Audio: The Managers, from BBC World Service © BBC 2014

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