The Hierarchy of Needs Theory by Abraham Maslow
Mahri Kadyrova
Professor Jim McCleskey
MNGT 2311
3 October 2013
The Hierarchy of Needs Theory by Abraham Maslow
(1943, 1954)
In the demanding world of business, motivation of the employers as well as of employees play a tremendous role (McKay, ``Importance of Motivation and Goal Setting for Businesses''). Unfortunately, theories about human motivation and what drives the employers and their employees to be motivated have not been studied until only recently. This paper will cover the Hierarchy of Needs Theory which analyzes the driving factors of human motivation at work place, in a family setting, in hospital organizations as well as in any other organization. The ...
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was social usefulness and practicality, thus he decided to approach the psychological research in a much different way (Emrich, ``Abraham Maslow''). As a psychology professor at Brooklyn College, Maslow tried to understand and explain all human motivation by combining existing approaches to motivations, such as Freudian, Adlerian, behaviorist, and cognitive-gestalt into one unique theory.
In 1932 a biologist named Walter Cannon in his work called Self-regulation in Animals came up with the term homeostasis which was the modern word for biological self-regulation (Hagen 96). According to a french psychologist Claude Bernard, by whom Cannon was influenced, an organism was made up of two environments, being external and internal, and described difference between them ( Hagen 96). He concluded that internal environment was `` a buffer between living cells and fluctuating external environment'' (Hagen 96). Maslow was dissatisfied with Cannon's idea about how organisms balanced ...
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in a given order and only in case the previous need is fully or partially satisfied ( Luz 1). The basic need in Maslow hierarchy of needs theory is the physiological needs.
2.1 Physiological needs
Physiological needs are considered one of the basic needs in Maslow's theory. Food, water, clothes, sex are considered as basic needs, that according to Maslow can easily be satisfied. However, in case these needs are not satisfied, it will control the behavior of that organism. It is crucial for a human to fulfill this need prior to switching into the next stage. According to Maslow, physiological needs are rather ``unusual than typical, because they are isolable and because they are ...
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