When first published, The Motivation to Work challenged the received wisdom by showing that worker fulfillment came from achievement and growth within the job itself. In his new introduction, Herberg examines thirty years of motivational research in job-related areas. Based on workers' accounts of real events that have made them feel good or bad on the job, the findings of Herberg and his colleagues have stimulated research and controversy that continue to the present day. The evidence marshaled by this volume called into question many previous assumptions about job satisfaction and worker motivation.