I am trying to recall who it was that indicatedthe following: " money is only a temporary satisfier".

Can you please let me know the individual who suscribed to this belief? I thought it was A. Maslowe.

-- Joe Schuda (jfb2020@aol.com), October 07, 2002

Answers

I found the following related passage from Maslow's _The Farther Reaches of Human Nature_ (1971):

"What is crucially important is the fact itself that there are many kinds of pay other than money pay, that money as such steadily recedes in importance with increasing affluence and with increasing maturity of character, while higher forms of pay and metapay steadily increase in importance. Furthermore, even where money pay continues to seem to be important, it is often so not in its own literal, concrete character, but rather as a symbol for status, success, self-esteem with which to win love, admiration, and respect. I assume that greater psychological health would make these kinds of pay more valuable especially with sufficient money and with money held constant as a variable. Of course, a large proportion of selfactualizing people have probably fused work and play anyway: i.e., they love their work. Of them, one could say, they get paid for what they would do as a hobby anyway, for doing work that is intrinsically satisfying."

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), October 08, 2002.

You can read the Herzberg theory. Yet, money is the temporary motivation, beause if this need have met, it will appear the next need. According to Herzberg, achievement, company'policy, recognition, job itself could generate motivation. One of the company done is job enrichment and job enlargement.

-- sarsulistyo (sarsulistyo@merpati.co.id), February 05, 2003.