JESCIPLIUM This area is suitable for information to be shared with the entire class. I am specifically interested in knowing if there is any confusion or clarification required concerning the syllabus or the administration of the class. This area is open to anyone to post questions, answers to classmates' questions, or just general comments. We are going to be working together for the semester, so let's get to know each other. Please take a few minutes and tell us about yourself. Also, feel free Eo upload a recent photo of yourself if you are comfortable with that and familiar with how to do it. Page 434: The major question is: Are these differences highly significant, or can an overall theory of work motivation apply throughout the world? Question #1: Reflect back on your understanding of the various content and process theories of motivationwhich one seemed the most universally applicable to you? Why? Page 436: "... providing in this case at least some general support for the universalist hypothesis." Question #2: Given the large number of motivational theories extant within the United States, how reasonable would it be to assume that there might be a universalist hypothesis" about worker motivation worldwide? What might support the idea? Page 443 on Herzberg's work. In his book, Frederick Herzberg actually found that as many people listed salary as when they felt particularly good about their job, as those reporting when they felt particularly bad about their job. Not wishing to have something "sit on the fence, he arbitrarily threw "salary" into hygiene factors. Yet, we know that money can motivate. There are many more criticisms of his two-factor theory. He only studied accountants and engineerswhile collar workers. This limits the generalizabilit of the construct. Herzberg famously stated that it is the work itself that motivates people. Arguably true for accountants and engineers in the Pittsburg are in the 1950s, however consider the good people who are currently mucking out horse stalls at Keeneland. Few people would be so bold as to suggest that it is the work itself" that is motivating those individuals. Perhaps the most egregious criticism is reserved for the accusation that his theory is method bound. When researchers used a method other than Herzberg critical incident methodology, they did not capture Herzberg's results. If a scholar employs his methods, that scholar finds Herzberg's results. Employing other methods yields the "Traditional View as depicted in Figure 12-4. Question #3: If a concept is "real", shouldn't it be revealed no matter what "tool" is used to find it