Human Motivation

by David C. McClelland

Book Overview

Human Motivation, originally published in 1987, offers a broad overview of theory and research from the perspective of a distinguished psychologist whose creative empirical studies of human motives span forty years. David McClelland describes methods for measuring motives, the development of motives out of natural incentives and the relationship of motives to emotions, to values and to performance under a variety of conditions. He examines four major...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521369517
• ISBN13: 9780521369510
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 676 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.6" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Amazing

Such a great book

A classic on motivation!

This is an advanced, technical work written by a leading theoretician. McClelland examines motivation in the personality and behaviorist traditions. He focuses on the dimensions of personality which drive behavior: achievement, power, affiliative, and avoidance motives. This work explores motivation in the context of trends in society, cognitive effects, values and skills, and training. Provides an enormous bibliography. This work is a classic and deserves careful reading by anyone deeply interested in the subject of motivation. Highly recommended!

A superb summary of a long and dynamic literature

This book is highly comprehensive textbook of the research into human motivation from the perspective of a powerful and innovative thinker. It is indicative of the author that it was out of date the day it was published, but is still a valuable text.