Analysis Of Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs

Another flash surrounded the car and Penelope’s hands started shaking, everything came back to her. William hopped back in the car and stared at her, “Penelope?”still shaking she flung herself against him “They wiped my memories, I told them I wouldn’t marry Cori. They threatened my family, I tried to leave and they wiped my memory. I think this is their final threat, if I leave I loose everything. None of you stay, they won’t give me new memories, they will erase months and I wake up in the middle of the woods.” He rubbed her back and neck softly “It’s okay. It’s okay.” Suddenly, Cleo’s voice broke into her mind in a gloating manner Still want to leave? Penelope looked up at Liam “When they wipe me, make sure I get home. Don’t leave me.” She

I believe this video is included in our patient care class to show us that there are many different kinds of disabilities a patient can suffer, all the while keeping a positive attitude. Something that stuck out the most in each person’s story was their want of independence. They want to live a normal life and be treated like any normal person. Being able to accomplish simple goals without the help of others is apart of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. I think that this is hard for some health care workers to understand. At the end of the day the job is to help people who can’t help themselves. The reality is that even though most disabled people cannot do certain things on their own, they still want to try. It will be our job to make sure that

Motivation stems from the word motive and is defined as something that causes a person to act in a certain way (Dictionary.com, 2015) and it is further defined as the condition of being eager (Merriam-Webster.com, 2015). In the assigned textbook, the psychology perspective of motivation is defined as “all the processes involved in starting, directing, and maintaining physical and psychological activities” (Gerrig, 2013). The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of motivation theories to encompass both the content and the process perspectives, the author’s experience and an analysis of goals set to include the success, defeat or content status. This paper will also integrate Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs since it is considered to be the first ever developed motivation theory (Maslow, 1943).

Abraham Maslow was one of the most influential and important educational psychologists and is recognized by many for his theory on mankind’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow’s theory which is known as “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” is best explained as a pyramid of needs that we as humans must meet in order to progress to another stage of needs. There are five stages in the pyramid of needs and they go as follows: physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and finally self-actualization. Maslow believed that we are motivated by base needs and before we can move to a higher form of growth needs or the next step in the hierarchy we must meet a lower form of needs. Maslow stated: “At once other (and “higher”) needs emerge and these, rather than physiological hungers, dominate the organism. And when these in turn are satisfied, again new (and still “higher”) needs emerge and so on. This is what we mean by saying that the basic human needs are organized into a hierarchy of relative prepotency”.

Abraham Maslow developed the theories of motivation because he felt that the sophistication of human behavior could not be portrayed through reinforcement or rewards. He felt that human action were directed toward realization and fulfillments and that behavior could be gratified while using multiple types of needs at the same time. Maslow wanted to find positive motivation as to why people react or engage in certain behaviors. He felt that basic survival was based upon his five theories and that long lasting success could be mastered upon the completion of these theories.

The motivation of a human being is an interesting subject. There many reasons for a person to do the same action. There are also many theories of the motivation of a human being. For this paper, the authors will look at the motivation of Theodore Roosevelt to fulfill Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. We will look how President Roosevelt was motivated to act throughout his life through each stage of the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

This individual research paper is being submitted on October 13, 2014 for Loretta Cochran’s Management [BUAD 3123] course.

The Hierarchy of needs theory is a formation of the needs of an individual person. Basically this hierarchy are based on five level which is classified into Physiological needs, Safety needs, Love/Belonging needs, Esteem needs and Self-actualization needs. It can be illustrated with a diagram 1.0 The Diagram of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.

Abraham Maslow foster the Hierarchy of Needs model in 1940-50s USA, and the Hierarchy of Needs theory remains valid today for understanding human motivation, management training, and personal development. Indeed, Maslow 's ideas surrounding the Hierarchy of Needs toward the responsibility of employers to provide a workplace environment that encourages and ability of employees to carry out their own unique potential (self-actualization) are today more related than ever. Abraham Maslow 's book Motivation and Personality, establish in 1954 ,second edition released in 1970 ,introduced the Hierarchy of Needs, and Maslow extended his ideas in other work, notably his later book Toward A Psychology Of Being, a

In this specific case study, when analyzed using both Maslow’s ‘hierarchy of needs’, along with Herzberg’s ‘satisfaction theory’, it can be seen that there are two major causes of organizational issues, from the removal of bonuses to the sudden layoffs

Money, flexible schedule, control of work production, or simply a, “Thank You”, what works best to motivate employees? Motivating employees to perform at their best is every employer’s desire. Having employees complete their work in a timely and accurate manner is very important in all companies. Without motivated employees, companies lose money. It takes employers knowing their employees, in order for them to know how and what motivational techniques work best, for their employees to perform at their optimal capacity. Monetary incentives seem to be the number one incentive chosen by employors, but is this the best option?

Human motivation can refer to the fulfillment or satisfaction of various needs. These needs encompass a broader range of human desires, starting from the fundamental ones for survival to the complex emotional needs for comfort that surrounds individual’s psychological well-being. In 1954, one of the social psychologist by the name Abraham Maslow who was interested in a broad spectrum of analyzing and understanding the human needs came up with a hierarchy of human needs theory portrayed in the form of a pyramid (Maslow, 2013). Typically, a hierarchy is a presentation or an arrangement that ranks concepts or people from the lowest level to the highest. According to Maslow, people must meet the wants at the lower level of the hierarchy before they can have the motivation to work for the next heights.

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory (Humanistic Theory of Self-Actualisation) originally comprised five levels of needs, usually represented as a pyramid, which in itself is a clever concept because like a pyramid each layer needs the preceding layer to be firmly in place before the next layer can be achieved - which is probably the ideology of Maslow’s theory. Maslow differs from Freud’s theory in that he takes a pragmatic approach, emphasising the importance of the positive to promote a positive state of mind in the ‘here and now’, rather than the in-depth psychoanalysis emphasising 'what is wrong with me’ approach of Freud. Maslow accepted that all humans have certain personality traits, such as boring, reserved, silly, aggressive; however, he believed most people have the potential to elevate themselves to a higher level of awareness and

In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs there are 5 stages of needs. For example: 1st, Biological and Physiological needs such as: food, air, sleep. Basically it is something we cannot live without. 2nd, Safety needs; like to feel yourself safe, 3rd, Social needs; for instance friendship, family, love. 4th, Esteem needs; for example, status, achievement, independence. 5th, Self-Actualization needs e.g. seeking personal growth, self-fulfillment. Maslow believed that whenever person achieves his/her goals, or needs they always move on to the next one. Maslow believed that everybody can and want to move up to the 5th stage of hierarchy, in order to get there you have to fulfill all the stages of the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs starting from the 1st to the 5th. Maslow’s study showed that only 1 in 100 can fully fulfill the all 5 stages of the hierarchy of needs.

When Abraham Maslow first came up with his theory of “hierarchy of needs”, he urged that our most basic needs must be met before self-actualization. Maslow came up with a triangle of our basic human needs and I thought it would be appropriate to touch basis first on these basic needs before self-actualization occurs. First, on the bottom of the triangle he lists our physiological needs and they are breathing, food, water, sex, sleep, homeostasis, and excretion. Second and working our way up the triangle is our safety needs and these needs are security of body, employment, resources, morality, family, health, and property. Third, in the middle of the triangle is our love and belonging needs. These needs include friendship, family, and sexual intimacy. Fourth, is our esteem needs and these are self-esteem, confidence, achievement, and respect of others. Last and on the top of the triangle is the self-actualization needs and these include morality, creativity, spontaneity, problem solving, lack of prejudice, and acceptance of facts. From the bottom, it starts with our most basic human needs and it works its way up to more in depth ones, where self-actualization is on the top of the triangle (http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/abraham-maslow/).