Maslow's Theory Of Employees

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Self-actualization needs: Companies are finding several methods to fulfill this need. One is Educational assistance programs that encourage employees to enroll in classes and courses related to their job roles, providing the employee personal and professional growth. Also, companies with well-educated employees, reap the benefits by employees armed with new skills.
Another method is to allow employees paid time off so as to entertain lifelong goals or involvement in a humanitarian cause. The result, a refreshment of the mind and body creating a renewed energy. Along with it, greater productivity.
A task of the administrators is to maintain or improve their organizations effectiveness. To accomplish this, an administrators needs to know their …show more content…

Understanding what motivates the individual and what tools the manager needs to motivate the staff, is a question of increasing concern.
One way to understand the individual and motivational methods is to revisit Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (Maslow 1954). In business it is approached as a model for defining motivation. A model for understanding the needs of the individuals, considerate to all disciplines. It continues to be utilized for understanding the driving forces and what is important to the individual.
According to the model, the employee needs to feel secure, and appreciated. If the leaders, the ones that have the endowment to impact the lives of employees, understand these needs and utilize the methods available to create challenges and opportunities to satisfying them and also accommodates both sets of needs with proper training, then the realization of employee motivation and dedication can be accomplished. The Maslow model provides the understanding of the needs. Training provides security, heightened feelings of belongingness, self-esteem, and an opportunity for …show more content…

But rather than a vacation, he went to Delmar, California to observe the first exercise of his theory being tried out in the workplace. At Non Linear Systems, a technology company. Maslow’s observations caused him to write about Enlightened Management. A model of workplace that would be most responsive to the workers reaching self-actualization. The Maslow model would be used to understand the needs of the employees. Meeting these needs would help develop an employee that would feel more secure, self-confident. Experiencing self-esteem and give the employee the opportunity for

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