Sources of Job Motivation and Satisfaction among British and Nigerian Employees

This study compares the responses of Nigerian and British employees living in England to questions concerning the origins of satisfaction and dissatisfaction and of working hard and working little. Job context factors emerged as being more important in the Nigerian sample, in the explanation of both high and low scores on job attitude sequences. Also, the responses of the British sample were considerably more in accordance with predictions from Herzberg's theory of job satisfaction than were the responses of the Nigerian sample. Theories of job satisfaction developed in one society therefore could not be applied to another without careful prior assessment of their relevance.