What is Pride of workmanship?

Pride of workmanship is the gratifying sense of having done good work. It is an element of job satisfaction.

One of the key principles in the philosophy of management consultant W. Edwards Deming is that workers have a right to pride of workmanship:

12a. Remove barriers that rob the hourly worker of his right to pride of workmanship. The responsibility of supervisors must be changed from sheer numbers to quality.

b. Remove barriers that rob people in management and in engineering of their right to pride of workmanship. This means, inter alia, abolishment of the annual or merit rating and of management by objective.