Texas Fire Chief - Spring/Summer 2009 - (Page 26) KITA and Firefighter Motivation By Chief Jim Linardos, Lake Travis Fire Rescue gad, another book on employee motivation? Please, I don’t have enough time to read this article and you want me to read another book on how to motivate people? The many myths of motivation are as long and wide as (you guessed it) the State of Texas. Just because it’s brand new and listed as a best seller doesn’t always make it worth the powder to blow it to H-E double toothpicks. How many sensitivity training sessions, employee counseling, two-way communication, new wage and benefit packages and kumbahya sessions have we labored through to find we still have unmotivated employees? Perhaps let’s take a look back and see what has lasted the true test of time. Somewhat like the cellar nozzle and the Jet Axe (if you don’t know, ask someone with a badge and grey hair), some good things keep coming back because they work. One of the best articles I have ever read on human motivation was written and published in the Harvard Business Review in 1967 by Frederick Herzberg (1923-2000). He had been studying motivation since the late 1950s and his work today is considered by organization theorists as a valid and significant. Read closely the article heading: One more time: How do you motivate employees? Not by improving work conditions, raising salaries, or shuffling tasks. This article focuses on the only true way to motivate employees: give them 26 TEXAS FIRE CHIEF Spring/Summer 2009 E
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