Why do we work? Management scholars have attempted to answer this question for more than a century, although ”new” responses often turn out be more of the same, recycled through new metaphors or methods.

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Indeed the ”usual suspects” of Maslow, Herzberg and Vroom continue to underpin managerial interventions like BPR and empowerment, and are still taught on business courses around the world. But ”the motivated” in this worldview are deficient and needy, passively waiting for external stimulation or greedy calculators of behavioural outcomes. This is not just old-fashioned: it doesn´t match reality. Motivation theory needs to change. This book rises to that challenge.

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Joanna Brewis is Reader in Management at the University of Leicester. Stephen Linstead is Professor of Critical Management at the University of York. David Boje is Professor of Management at New Mexico State University. Tony O’Shea is an independent researcher, musician and recording engineer.