highest levels of productivity from their employees while also producing a quality product. One researcher and psychologist‚ Abraham Maslow‚ also developed a theory‚ which impacted the human behavioral approach to management (Schermerhorn‚ 2013). In this paper‚ I will discuss the history of Maslow’s theory‚ identify and explain human needs as described by Maslow‚ why this theory is important to managers and how they can best implement Maslow’s theory to gain a competitive advantage. Abraham
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should have a full understanding of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. 2. Explanation of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs? In 1958 a well-known psychologist‚ Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)‚ composed a motivational theory called “Maslow’s hierarchy of needs”. This theory suggests that when a human beings needs are met one will function most effectively. Maslow also believed that needs have to stay unsatisfied to motivate ones behaviour. In the hierarchy there are five levels. These levels are survival‚ safety‚ social
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manifests in her obsession with neatness and orderliness. 2. Why does Myra feel that cleaning the house is her responsibility? How would Jungian theory explain Myra adopting this traditional role? According to Jung the mind or psyche has two levels; conscious and unconscious. Unlike Freud‚ Jung believes that collective unconscious refers to humans’ “innate tendency to react in a particular way whenever their experiences stimulate a biological inherited response tendency.” This explains why Myra unexpectedly
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Blair Waldorf "Gossip Girl" Theory Application Blair Waldorf "Gossip Girl" Theory Application Blair Cornelia Waldorf is the main character of the CW television series "Gossip Girl." Blair is labeled as the Queen Bee of the upper class high school she attends and Manhattan’s social scene. She is a vain and stuck up overachiever who is only set on satisfying her needs and being superior towards others. It seems as if her main goal is to hold power over everyone and make others do her bidding
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Abraham Maslow is considered to be the father of Humanistic Psychology‚also known as the "Third Force". Humanistic Psychology incorporatesaspects of both Behavioral Psychology and Psychoanalytic Psychology. Behaviorists believe that human behavior is controlled by external environmentalfactors. Psychoanalytic Psychology is based on the idea that human behavior iscontrolled by internal unconscious forces. Though he studied both Behavioraland Psychoanalytic Psychologies‚ Maslow rejected the idea that
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In the article Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs a known psychologist‚ Abraham Maslow quickly jumps to the point‚ by stating his theory the “Hierarchy of needs”. His theory relies on two ideas‚ “people have a number of needs that require some measure of satisfaction and only unsatisfied needs motivate behavior. This means that some people have to satisfy there needs to a certain amount but if they don’t satisfy their needs it will alter their behavior. Second part of his theory is that we all have a hierarchy
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Maslow Case Study 15 1) Cindy’s first year of life was a very trying one‚ and according to Maslow‚ the primary needs on her hierarchy were not being sufficiently met. The first need is to have physiological needs satisfied for sheer survival purposes‚ such as receiving adequate food‚ water‚ elimination and sleep. Maslow explained that for a person not receiving these things‚ their idea of a perfect place would be one where there is plenty of food and water and they can sleep and eliminate whenever
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The book of C.G Jung “The Undiscovered Self” was written during the cold war concerning communism. He saw during this time the trend toward collectivism as the utmost threat to the individual self. He expresses grief over the adoption of mass mindedness‚ and encourages its psychic depreciation. Witnessing the physical and psychological destruction of war‚ Jung provides the reader his analytic interpretation of the incomparable loss of self in the intrusion of secular religion and social collectivism
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs was proposed by Abraham Maslow in 1968‚ it is his theory that a person’s basic needs must be satisfied before we can focus on those that are more abstract (Wood‚ 2013). The Hierarchy is usually displayed as a pyramid with the basic needs at the bottom and the more complex needs at the top. The bottom starts with an individual’s physical needs such as air‚ food‚ water the things needed to survive. As humans communication is also needed to survive‚ because it helps us to
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Alfred Adler and Karen Horney I agree with Alfred Adler when he states that a sense of inferiority drives people to succeed. I can relate to this theory because I am very affected by others’ actions around me. If somebody that I idolize is prospering in a certain area‚ I may feel inferior and strive to meet his or her level. For example‚ when running with a partner who is faster than me‚ I always push myself and increase my pace significantly. Many people are driven by
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