A Case Study Of Maslow's Employee Turnover And Job Satisfaction

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I am highly indebted to Beijing Carrefour Chaoyang store for their guidance and constant supervision as well as for providing necessary information regarding the project & also for their support in completing the project. I would like to express my gratitude towards general manager Mr. Zhang and HR director Mrs. Li from Carrefour Chaoyang store, for their kind co-operation and encouragement which help me in completion of this project. My thanks and appreciations also go to my supervisor Dr. Singh, in developing the project and people who have willingly helped me out with their abilities.

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Maslow believed that these five needs have to be improved from lower stage to the higher ones. Generally speaking, once the lower stage is met, individual’s need will change to the higher stage, and this need will replace the previous one and become the motivation factor. In this hierarchy, physiological, safety, and love/ belonging could be met by some simple external factors. However esteem and self-actualization need more internal factors, and for individuals, there is no limit for the higher demand. In a certain period, individual might have several needs, but there must be a major one which can lead individual’s behavior. Lower needs might be weaken when the individual’s need is in a higher stage, but either of them will be disappeared in any situation. The degrees of country’s development will influence individuals’ needs: individuals from developed countries have higher needs than individuals from developing countries (Maslow, 1968). Hierarchy of Needs theory paid attention to individual’s perspective, and indicated the individual 's needs are gradually transformed from low to high, which reflected the relationship between individual’s psychology and behavior. While this theory has some disadvantages, such as not taking account of the impact on the motivation of individual beliefs, and no …show more content…

He believed existence, relatedness and growth are three core factors that individuals need (Clayton, 1969). Different from Maslow’s, ERG theory believes these three needs don 't have an inevitable ascending order. When individuals meet a lower level’s need, they might go to chase the next level’s need; when they can’t meet some higher level’s need, they night also change to pursue the lower level’s need; additionally, after a certain need is met, the attractiveness of the same need might be further improved. So unlike Maslow 's Hierarchy Needs theory, ERG theory more emphasis on the impact from individual

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