Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory Essay

As an adult with all need a job to survive or to satisfy our needs and have pleasures when we have a time off. We also work because it is our duty and function as a member of society. But are we happy of what we’re doing? Job satisfaction describes how content an individual is with his or her job. According to a psychologist named Edwin Locke (1976) job satisfaction is a pleasurable or positive emotional state resulting from appraisal of one’s job or experiences. Job satisfaction can be understood in terms of its relationships with other key factors, such as general well-being, stress at work, control at work, home-work interface, and working conditions. At some point in our workplace we experience things that are inevitable. An example would

be a coworker took a day off thus we need to take his or her place resulting to have unfinished work.
Sociability is defined from an online source that the need to have or a tendency to seek companions, social relationships and friends. A philosopher named George Simmel defines sociability as the play-form of sociation, that is, the pleasurable, joyful and delightful experience that comes out of people’s interaction in society.
The objective of this study is to analyze government employee’s job satisfaction and sociability at Social Security System. It seeks to determine whether higher level of job satisfaction can be related to higher level of sociability.

Theoretical Framework
The theory created by Herzberg is called motivation-hygiene theory.

This two-factor theory determines if an employee is satisfied or dissatisfied on his or her work. He developed the motivation-hygiene theory to explain these results. He called the satisfiers motivators and the dissatisfiers hygiene factors, using the term "hygiene" in the sense that they are considered maintenance factors that are necessary to avoid dissatisfaction but that by themselves do not provide satisfaction. Herzberg theory will be helpful to the researcher because it determines from the data that the motivators were elements that enriched a person's job; he found five factors in particular that were strong determiners of job satisfaction: achievement, recognition, the work itself, responsibility, and advancement.

Social skills are needed to increase productivity when working in the government. A psychologist named Nancy Cantor and John Kihlstrom made a theory about Social Intelligence. It outlined the kinds of concepts people use to make sense of their social relations (e.g., “What situation am I in and what kind of person is this who is talking to me?”), and the rules they use to draw inferences (“What did he mean by that?”) and plan actions (“What am I going to do about

it?”)