The Article Mr. Rankin is the person responsible for the technical implementation of a new customer relationship management software. The company he works for is having great success with initial sales across the country, but when it comes to repeat customers, it seems the numbers are lacking. This software, in theory, should increase the levels of follow-up service nation-wide. At this point, the company employs three hundred and ten people and maintains their low prices, which is how they get their initial business. Mr. Rankin is starting to feel the pressure from his boss, Mrs. Dyer. All the pressure he is feeling seems to be translating to the rest of his team. One member of the team, Sally, quit for a job that offered her less …show more content…
He devised five different sets of needs that were grouped into two different categories, Basic and Higher-order needs. The basic needs are just that. The basic needs for physiological survival. (food, water, shelter, ect.) Higher-order needs are the needs that are not necessary for physiological survival but for psychological stability, if I had to put it into my own words. (Social, esteem, self-actualization, ect.) Looking at all of these needs, there are two separate ways about how we are motivated to satisfy each need. These are what we call Intrinsic and Extrinsic motivations. When we say that somebody has intrinsic motivation that generally means that the reasons why they are motivated are influenced by factors that cause a sense of accomplishment and pleasure. On the other end, we have extrinsic motivations which means that the reasons people are motivated are influenced by factors controlled by others. This includes things like money and status. Below you can see a diagram of Maslow’s hierarchy with the more basic needs at the bottom and the Higher-order needs towards the top. (Fig. 1-1) (Fig …show more content…
The Chicago members are amore family oriented group and may need more time off whereas the LA team is willing to work whenever you ask them. That is the glory of Maslow’s theory. It is intuitive, or sensitive to the individual, which makes it the perfect solution for this company.
Discussion
Each individual is and will always be different. When you look at a company as a whole, sometimes a problem, does not have a one size fits all solution. In this case, the CEO needs to realize that while all of the employees are having their basic needs met, there are small steps that could increase the amount of higher order needs being met. The first step I would suggest is to hire a branch manager for each branch that is part of the company. This would make communication between the separate branches smoother and put a little less pressure on the other employees. By taking this step, Rankin would not be forced to fly back and forth from LA to Chicago, and back and forth, and as that was one of the complaints mentioned in the article, it would take massive amounts of pressure off of
The next problem is an Autocratic Leadership. In an autocratic leadership employees have no say. All decisions are made by the management. This is a problem because even though management may know what is best for the company, they do not know what is best for the employees. They should listen to the employee’s ideas and not dismiss them immediately. (toolbox, Leadership Styles: Autocratic leadership)
Knowledge comes from experience. Since birth, Mary Shelley’s Monster from her acclaimed epistolary novel, Frankenstein, has been assaulted by all of the difficulties of life, yet he has faced them completely alone. The Tabula Rasa concept is completely applicable to him. The Monster begins as a child, learning from mimicking and watching others. He then educates himself by reading a few books which help shape his personality and give him an identity. Following Maslow’s hierarchy of needs the Monster searches for and accomplishes the basic human necessities but feels alone, and needs human interaction and companionship. “My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine,” (Shelley 115). As the book progresses, the Monster ceases to be a one-dimensional and flat watcher of humanity. Through his numerous experiences and education, the monster instead morphs into a participator of humanity with the ability to achieve goals, broaden his personality and create himself an identity.
Abraham Maslow, a researcher in psychology contributed to the field f science by analysis how motives are organized in a hierarchy and describes the formula for a healthy personality. The Maslow Hierarchy of Needs is a systematic arrangement of needs, according to priority, in which basic needs must be met before less basic needs are aroused. Many stages are arranged in the hierarchy; from progressively less basic needs are at the top of the pyramid, towards regression of lower needs that are not being satisfied at the bottom. The lowest stage on the pyramid, physiological needs, is defined as the most basic needs for dealing with the maintenance of the body, such as hunger, thirst, and so forth (Weiten, 2013). One of the individuals who achieved the need was Joe. He was brought to the hospital for immediate blood transfusion because his white blood count has significantly decreased, which could lead to infection. This is an example of physiological needs because going to the hospital is maintaining the human body, which is extremely necessary for survival (Walker & George,
In 1954 an American psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed that all people are motivated to fulfill a hierarchical pyramid of needs. At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are needs essential to survival, such as the needs for food, water, and sleep. The need for safety follows these physiological needs. According to Maslow, higher-level needs become important to us only after our more basic needs are satisfied. These higher needs include the need for love and 'belongingness', the need for esteem, and the need for self-actualization (In Maslow's theory, a state in which people realize their greatest potential) (All information by means of Encarta Online Encyclopedia).
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs can be presented in a pyramid, featuring the most basic and necessary needs for survival in the bottom levels. The hierarchy of needs says that we must fulfil our needs in a particular order; the lowest level must be fulfilled first before being able to move up the pyramid.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs represents the fundamental needs of person throughout their life. The hierarchy of needs relates to why people decide to join the gang. The bottom of the hierarchy shows psychological needs a person will need such as food, water, shelter, and clothing. When, a person is available to attain these needs they go to great lengths to survive. Many gangs offer food, shelter to coax people who have become desperate. The next tier on Maslow's hierarchy of needs is safety and security, which is also important to a person who live in a violent neighborhood or is being harassed. There are other gangs like Barrio Azteca that have been formed to protect themselves from other gangs. Joining a gang gives a person a blanket of security because
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
Maslow (1943) stated that people are motivated to achieve certain needs. When one need is fulfilled, a person seeks to fulfil the next one, and so on. The earliest and most widespread version of Maslow's (1943, 1954) hierarchy of needs includes five motivational needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid.
...ement maintaining close ties to employees this will also prove to be a difficult task as, they will now have more employees to monitor, and naturally as an organizational grows the chains of commands becomes longer, thus making it harder to develop close relationships and ties to those that are not immediate within reach.
Considering the fact sixty-two percent of people watch television every day, most people don’t realize how advertising commercials use Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to sell products. They use this to sell products because Maslow’s needs come in five levels and describe the things that each person wants to achieve in life. The levels start with the Physiological needs which are the basic needs such as food and water. The second level is safety this level deal with things such as employment, security of the body and more. The third level is Love/Belonging and deals with friendship and family. The fourth level is Esteem needs and appeals to people’s confidence, achievement, and others things. The final level every person wants to achieve
2.4 How do you think the people under Ms. Hogan can be motvated? Explain how
Maslow’s model of what the five basic needs are for humans to advance, as described by Urwiler, R.N. (2008) are physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, self-esteem needs and self-actualization needs. Once an individual is missing any of the basic physiological needs to survive such as “oxygen, food, water and warmth”, then the behavior changes. “If one or more of these basic needs is lost, the priorities of a person immediately shift to satisfying the missing need” (p.83). Maslow, A. H. (1948) also found that meeting these needs could also address other conflicts in society. Humans need food, water, clothing and shelter to survive.
Abraham Maslow did studies of the basic needs of human beings. He put these needs into a hierarchical order. This means that until the need before it has been satisfied, the following need can not be met (Encyclopedia, 2000). For example, if someone is hungry they are not thinking too much about socializing. In the order from lowest to highest the needs are psychological, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization. The first three are classified as lower order needs and the last two are higher order (Hierarchy, 2000). Without meeting these needs workers are not going to be as productive as they could otherwise. The first three are considered to be essential to all humans at all times. The last two have been argued but are mostly considered to be very important as well.
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...
One of the most well known theories that links in with this is Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This need theory was developed by looking at the human needs from basic to luxury. Maslow’s needs theory was based on three assumptions, theses three assumptions are as follows, human needs are completely satisfied, human behaviour is purposeful and is motivated by the need for satisfaction and finally needs can be classified according to hierarchal structure of importance, starting from b...