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
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
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.
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).
...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.
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,
Abraham Maslow was a psychologist who created the concept of the 5 levels of needs, back in 1943. These 5 levels form a pyramid that is referred to as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. An Individual starts at the bottom of the pyramid, at physical needs, and then promotes him or herself up. Physical needs are the most basic yet vital needs for survival. These include things such as, food, water, shelter, etc. If a person is successful in accomplishing those needs, they can move up onto the next level of needs, known as safety needs. Examples of safety needs include health insurance, safe neighbourhood, as well as a good shelter. Next you move onto social needs. These are needs for belonging, love, and affection. After this, comes esteem needs. These are needs that focus on personal worth and value, social recognition, and accomplishment. Finally, after all other needs have been met, comes self-actualization needs. This is the highest level of needs, and they include less concern for the opinion of others and the interest in fulfilling your potential.
Jones Plastics and Engineering has a corporate office with a board of directors who appointed Craig Jones as the CEO of the company. The General Manager is Chuck Flaherty who has five people under him. Jeff Steele is the Vice President of Purchasing, Kevin Hobbs is the Finance and CFO, David Elliot is the Vice President of Operations and he is over all of the plant managers at each facility. Christy Williams is the Director of Human Resources and over the Corporate Human Resources staff (C. Williams, personal communication, August 17, 2015). Each staff member at the corporate level affects the respected department they are over in our facility. I am in Human Resources so Christy Williams plays a big part on the performance of my department.
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.
Food, water, sleep, and sensory gratification are all at the top of the hierarchy. These and other needs are considered to be part of the psychological needs. These rest at the top of the hierarchy because they are the essence to basic human survival. The list of these needs can be much larger or shorter depending of personal opinion. Maslow himself said that said “it would be po...
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...
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...
Social needs will focus on safe working areas and job security. Self-Actualization involves work with creativity, innovation and focusing on achieving long-term targets. Every employee has his/her own set of needs; each employee may be motivated by different factors. Leaders of the organization must identify the needs level at which the employee is functioning and use those needs as a target or bar to achieve in terms of motivating the employees. Theories usually have positive sides and negative sides and Maslow’s theory also has some criticism. The theory makes a lot of sense but people have different needs meaning that the pyramid of needs is arranged differently for each individual for example: Social needs is the most important factor for me and I believe that it should come first but according to Maslow it is not the most important factor. Another criticism is that Maslow believed that people need to fulfill the lower category needs before reaching their potential and self-actualize and this is not true because poor people tend to need love and belongingness first but according to Maslow this should not