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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0673157911
• ISBN13: 9780673157911
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Scott Foresman & Co
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.

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 It is indicative of the author that it was out of date the day it was published, but is still a valuable text.