1. Introduction “Each of us has our own sets of needs that motivate our communication and our responses to messages. While not everyone’s priorities are identical, our needs resemble one another’s.’’ Maslow wanted to understand what inspires people. Maslow believed that people carry a set of motivation systems that are unrelated to rewards or to the unconscious desires. Maslows hierarchy of needs includes five motivational needs, that are often interpreted as the hierarchical levels that are within a pyramid. The five stage model can be divided into basic needs and growth needs. Basic needs include physiological, safety, love and esteem. And growth needs include self-actualization. The basic needs motivate people when they are not yet met. One must satisfy the lower needs in order to be able to satisfy the higher level needs. Once all these needs are satisfied, then may the individual be able to reach the highest level which is self- actualization. Example: if you are missing essentials like food or water, you do not concern yourself with needs like making friends, which is two levels above. Also you are not going to want to be creative when you are facing a medical emergency. 2. The level of the needs is as follows a) Biological and physiological needs such as air, food, water, shelter, sleep. b) Safety needs such as protection from the elements, security, and freedom from fear. c) Social needs such as the feeling of belonging, affection and love- from work, family, friends, and romantic relationships d) Esteem needs such as achievement, independence, status, reputation, self- respect, and the respect of others. e) Self- actualization needs include realizing your own personal potential, self- fulfillment and seeking personal gr... ... middle of paper ... ...nionship, and to always want to improve ourselves. Communication can mold individuals into what they become. Without communication, our human needs would not be met, and we would either not be able to survive or will not be able to lead fulfilling lives that we desire. 6. Bibliography • http://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html • The Right to be Human: A Biography of Abraham Maslow Edward Hoffman, McGraw-Hill, 1999 • New Knowledge in Human Values (Ed: Abraham H. Maslow) NY: Harper & Bros, 1959. South Bend, IN:Regnery/Gateway, 1959. Chicago:H. Regnery, 1970, 1971. • http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm • Steinberg, S.,2007, An introduction to communication studies, Juta and Company Ltd, South Africa • http://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/abraham-maslow/ • Maslow, A. Motivation and Personality (2nd ed) Harper & Row, 1970
Abraham Maslow arranged human needs into a hierarchy of five needs, starting with the most important needs which are physiological needs such as, hunger, thirst, and warmth. He then went all the way up to the least important which is self-actualization that is known as the fulfillment of unique potentials. His hierarchy of needs is depicted in a pyramidal form with the most important needs at the bottom as a base and the least important towards the top. According to Maslow, self-actualization is becoming what we believe we are capable of being he also believed that self -actualization is as important as physiological needs. Many people desire to reach self-actualization because
It is the need for self-esteem, achievement, competence, and independence. It is also a need for recognition and respect from others. This is a need that many people will often struggle with because feeling confident is one of those situations where is it much more easily said than done. The fifth level of needs is self-actualization, which is the need to live up to our fullest and unique potential. These are the moments when the famous quote “live life to the fullest” really is necessary. It may seem like an unoriginal and cheesy quote, but it really does matter. It is important to have a goal set for yourself and to strive for success in every moment of each and every day. The final need is at the top of the pyramid, and is the self-transcendence need. This is the need to find meaning and identity that is beyond yourself. This is the top need because to most it would seem to have the highest level of difficulty when it comes to achieving this particular need. Having a personal goal is important, but there is no point to a goal if you do not have an understanding of your own self. While the six different levels on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs are on a pyramid that ranks them, that does not mean that they are not all important. Some may need to be put before another, but they all should be achieved eventually. The amount of time it takes you to get there is totally up to
Our physiological needs are the needs for food, sex, health, and so on. Our safety needs are the needs for stability and security in our living situation. Our social needs are the needs we have for meaningful relationships, as well as our needs for support from peers or our society. Our esteem needs are our needs to feel validated, and accomplished. And last but not least, of course are our needs for self-actualization; in other words our needs to become autonomous, capable and fulfilled in what we
People have long considered general theories of motivation, and the question regarding the specific motives that direct and energize our human behavior has undergone tremendous speculation. To this day the question still stands: what is it that humans seek most in life? In an effort to answer this question, Abraham Maslow proposed what he called the hierarchy of needs. Maslow theorizes that human beings are motivated to fulfill this hierarchy, which consists of needs ranging from those that are basic for survival up to those that promote growth and self-enhancement (Kassin 300).
Maslow suggested that there are five levels of need. Level one needs are basic needs such as food and shelter which need to be meet before moving to the next level of need. Each level should be meet in turn up to level five, self-actualisation. An example of this in current practice is providing children with snack and water during the school day fulfilling basic needs and providing opportunities to develop friendships and feel safe at school to express their feelings can fulfil needs in levels 2 and 3 of Maslowâ€TMs hierarchy of
Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who introduced the concept of the motivational needs in his paper “A Theory of Human Motivation” written in 1943. He explains that humans have certain needs that need to be fulfilled and when they are not met is what gives he or she the motivation toward achieving that goal. His work was popularized by a representation of the motives using a pyramid. The pyramid displays the needs in chronological order until one becomes self-actualized. Maslow states that a person will finally reach self-actualization when, “A basically satisfied person no longer has the needs for esteem, love, safety, etc” (1433-1434). The lower levels of the pyramid are more easily accomplished as compared to the higher levels that are more challenging. In order to graduate from one level to another, the lower levels must be satisfied first or else one cannot progress further according to Maslow.
The hierarchy of needs is frequently represented in the shape of a pyramid and is broken up into 5 separate stages with the main, most important levels of necessities at the bottom and the need for self-actualization
Motivation is defined as individual internal process that energizes, directs and sustains behavior. Motivation depends on how much the person wants something and how likely they think they will get it. Managers struggle to improve motivation in the workplace, but with the right tools they can become successful. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a pyramid of personal satisfaction that need to be met so a person can reach their full potential and be happy. Each level of the pyramid is stratified from the bottom up. A person cannot move up the pyramid until the bottom needs are met. Maslow’s hierarchy is usually a personal tool used to assess how an individual is doing, but businesses adapted this tool to use in the workplace and improve morale.
Self-actualisation is the need to reach ones full potential. This may be include becoming a manager, a parent or a good sports person (Simply Psychology,
Personally, I don’t believe that me as a person has reached self-actualization. I think I’m somewhere around the esteem needs. I have fulfilled the physiological needs by having food, water, shelter, etc. The safety needs are met by safety from attacks and disease. The third hierarchy is fulfilled by affection from family and friends. The esteem need is half way met but not completely.
Researching the Hierarchy of needs pyramid this is was done because he wanted to understand what motivates people. What was believed was that people take a set of motivation system unrelated to rewards and unconscious desires. Maslow stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is met a person seeks to fulfill the next one and so on. http://www.simplypsychology.org, 2007-2014 . With the Maslow hierarchy of needs it starts at the bottom and work its way up to the top. One must fulfill lower lever basic needs before
Individual’s “possess inner needs and are motivated by the desire to fulfill these needs” (Phillips & Gully, 2014). Abraham Maslow, and Clay Alderfer offer two separate models that explore the needs of individuals. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs contests that people have five levels of needs which they progress. Alderfer suggests there are three groups of individual needs and he views his model more as a continuum rather than a hierarchy. (Phillips & Gully, 2014) The lowest level on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs depicts an individual’s basic physiological needs for food, water, and comfort. This need runs parallel to Alderfer’s existence needs that describes an individual’s desire for physical and material well-being. The second level on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is safety and security needs such as ones desire for health, and job security. The third level on Maslow’s hierarchy is social needs for friendship and belonging which coordinates to Alderfer’s relatedness needs; desires for respect and relationships with others. The fourth level on Maslow’s hierarchy is self-esteem needs for self-respect and respect for others. The last and highest level on Maslow’s hierarchy is self-actualization needs which include self-fulfillment and the realization of one’s full potential. Alderfer’s growth needs which describe ones desire to make useful and productive contributions coincides with Maslow’s self-actualization needs. (Phillips
The Hierarchy of needs theory, by Maslow, shows the basic and the advanced needs that the person should fulfill to reach his or her highest potential. That is why the theory is best depicted as a pyramid including seven stages. The first stage is physiological needs: water, body temperature, sleep, and sex. When one satisfies those needs, he or she can go to the next stage. Safety needs is the second stage. Here, the person is concerned about his safety and stability, so he tries to find a good job to support himself financially, and also find a good home in a safe place. The third stage is belongingness and love. To love and be loved and accepted becomes very important in this stage, so the person starts to worry about his relationships. Being accepted and loved will lead successfully to the fourth stage, which is esteem needs. In this level, the person is more concerned about achieving and gaining approval. Ones those needs are fulfilled, the cognitive needs come to be a priority. This fifth level is attained by seeking knowledge and explor...
Communication is defined as “the act or process of using words, sounds, signs or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, and feelings to someone else.” From that description, communication can be characterized as anything that can be used to get a message or a piece of knowledge from one individual to another. Communication helps humans to function orderly and productively. Without communication, the evolution of religion, government, art, clothing and much more would not have been possible. This makes communication a major cause of the evolution of human society with the solitary purpose: to inform and provide new information to others. Communication allows us to understand and gain knowledge and understanding of information.
Theories of motivation consists two parts. Content and process motivation theories. Content motivation theories focuses mainly on people needs and explains why people have different needs at different times. Content theories of motivation treated as a need or desire, to act for the sake of promoting a certain goal. One most prominent theorist Abraham Maslow (1943) proposed the hierarchy of needs. It states that all the needs of the people can be divided into five categories, aligned incentive effect in descending order: (psychological, safety, social, esteem and self-actualization needs). Psychological are the basic needs to survive, e.g. food, clothes, shelter, warmth, sleep, etc. Safety are the needs like security, stability, freedom from fear, etc. Social needs are the feelings of belongingness, acceptance, being part