Application of Maslow's hierarchy of needs to Employee Motivation

 

The base of this class of theories comes in part from Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a normal concept in psychology which outlines the basic, psychological, and self-fulfillment needs of an individual’s (McLeod, 2020).

Maslow (1943) stated that people, including employees at organizations, are motivated by the desire to achieve or maintain the various conditions upon which these basic satisfactions rest and by certain more intellectual desires.

Physiological or Basic Needs

These include the basic physiological needs of a human. Hunger, thirst, sex, shelter, and other bodily needs. Managers should pay their employees enough salary to cover their basic needs. Employees should have access to recreational and dining opportunities.


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Safety Needs

Employees consider their working environment to be free of threats and harms once their physiological needs are met. Managers should provide employees with job security, a safe and sanitary work environment, and retirement benefits when it comes to Needs safety requirements.



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Love and Belongingness Needs

When a person’s self-centric needs are satisfied, it will starts to look into the relationships the person is dealing with. Now the person has what he wanted for himself will start to pay attention to others surrounding him. The need for affection comes into play with the necessity of a family, sweetheart or a friend.


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Esteem Needs

Maslow defines esteem needs as having two components. The first involves feeling self-assured and good about oneself. The second component is feeling valued by others; that is, believing that our accomplishments and contributions have been acknowledged by others. When people's esteem needs are met, they feel more confident and recognize the value and significance of their contributions and achievements. The below image will elaborate Maslow’s esteem needs.




Figure 6 : Esteem Needs

Self-Actualization Needs

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.” (Maslow, 1954).

Self-actualization refers to a sense of fulfilment or living up to one's full potential. One distinguishing feature of self-actualization is that it appears differently for each individual. For one person, self-actualization may entail helping others; for another, it may entail accomplishments in an artistic or creative field. Self-actualization is essentially the feeling that we are doing what we believe we are meant to do.    


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References

Maslow, A. H. (1943). A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 394-395.

McLeod, S. (2020, March 20). Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Simply Psychology.

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  1. Shamalka MadushanDecember 15, 2022 at 11:48 AM

    Respectable explanation about the application of Maslow's hierarchy of needs to Employee Motivation Divangi .As further more According to the idea, needs are placed in a hierarchy of significance, starting with physiological requirements and moving on through safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs(Low & Pt, 2018).

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  2. Divangi CoorayDecember 17, 2022 at 12:01 AM

    Thank you Shamalka.Further, People are motivated to achieve certain needs and that some needs take precedence over others. Individuals must satisfy lower-level deficit needs before progressing on to meet higher level growth needs (Maslow,1943).

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