Motivational Basis for Compensation Strategies in a Library Environment

Abstract

In the past twenty years two major schools of thought on motivation for performance in the work environment have arisen. Each has been extensively tested and applied with success in a wide variety of industries. These theories are summarized and the literature reviewed, with attention paid to the implications of the theories for library management. Although the theo-ries of valence-instrumentality-expectancy and reinforcement derived from different sources, what each implies for library management is remarkably similar. n the last two decades an in-creasing portion of business school management instruc-tion has been devoted to theo-ries of motivation. Yet, the literature in li-brary journals contains little reference to the two modern theories dominating cur-rent motivational practices. Even recent li-brary management texts reflect the old

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