Hygiene factors 599851 220765464 2008-06-21T13:43:41Z DOI bot 6652755 Citation maintenance. You can [[WP:DOI|use this bot]] yourself! Please [[User:DOI_bot/bugs|report any bugs]]. '''Hygiene factors''' are [[employment|job]] factors that can cause dissatisfaction if missing but do not necessarily motivate [[employee]]s if increased <ref name=Herzberg1968>{{cite journal | year = 1968 | author = Herzberg, F. | title=One more time: how do you motivate employees? | journal = Harvard Business Review | volume = 46 | issue = 1 | pages = 53–62}} </ref>. Hygiene factors have mostly to do with the job [[built environment|environment]] <ref name="HackmanOldham1976"> {{cite journal | author=J. R. Hackman, G. R. Oldham |name=HackmanOldham1976| title=Motivation through design of work | journal=Organizational behaviour and human performance | volume=16 | pages=250–279 | year = 1976 | doi=10.1016/0030-5073(76)90016-7}} </ref>. These factors are important or notable only when they are lacking. Hygiene factors are part of [[Frederick Herzberg]]'s theory on job [[motivation]]. ===List of Hygiene Factors=== This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Note that these factors are extrinsic from the job itself. <ref name=HackmanOldham1976 /> *Company policy and administration *[[Supervision]] <ref name=HackmanOldham1976 /> *Working conditions <ref name=HackmanOldham1976 /> *Interpersonal relations([[co-workers]]) *Company Policies <ref name=HackmanOldham1976 /> *[[Salary]] <ref name=HackmanOldham1976 /> *Status *[[Job security]] (Herzberg called them hygiene factors because they prevent dissatisfaction only when present instead of increasing satisfaction; just as hygiene prevents disease only when present rather than increasing well-being.) [[Category:Employment]] ==References== Neil Stephenson's Snow Crash: The concept of a hygiene factor in a religious text being something that could be used in a purge to "cleanse" a faction out of the religion. <references />