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Some thirty years ago surveys of employee motivation were conducted in great depth by some pretty hard-headed personnel organizations, and the eventual results were published and widely studied in such magazines as Fortune.
To the surprise of everyone concerned, the primary goal of the employee, both clerical and industrial, was neither salary nor "security" but a sense of personal worth, of achievement in the job, and the desire to receive a fair deal and recognition from the employer.
Unless John Doe can see the chance of achievement in status and in accomplishment of something he feels to be important in the job, he is unhappy no matter what the rates of pay or the fringe benefits offered him.
No findings since these surveys were made in the thirties have in any way contradicted or superseded them.
In other words the typical man puts above anything else the need to feel that he is doing something worthwhile and that he can increase his skill and move forward by his own efforts. He is not foolish enough to believe that, under any system, everyone can become a millionaire. He does need to know that he can earn status and the recognition of his fellows in his own life and his own job.
It is just this sense of achievement which he cannot attain under any system except that of free competition and free enterprise. And it is for just this reason that man cannot fulfill himself as an individual within the termite hill of a totalitarian system.