MOTIVATING WORKERS USING MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

MOTIVATING WORKERS USING MASLOW'S HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

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  • Date Submitted: 06/05/2016 2:24 AM
  • Category: Psychology
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MOTIVATING WORKERS USING MASLOW’S HIERACHY OF NEEDS
Peter Stimpson and Ian Smith(2011) defined Motivation as the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that stimulate people to take actions that lead to achieving a goal where intrinsic motivation comes from satisfaction derived from working on and completing a task and extrinsic motivation comes from external rewards associated with working on a task, for example pay and benefits at work. Workers which are well motivated will help an entrepreneur achieve his goals and objectives as cost effectively as possible. Motivated workers will also be trying to reach their own personal goals by satisfying their own needs. Unmotivated or demotivated staff will not perform effectively, offering the minimum of what is expected. Motivation levels have a direct impact on productivity levels and highly motivated workers have high productivity and this reduces costs of the entrepreneur. Motivated workers will be more likely to offer useful suggestions into the business. In order to motivate workers on work.
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a psychological proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper which is a theory of human motivation in psychotically review. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of human’s innate curiosity. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a description of the needs that motivates human behavior. Abraham Maslow’s research was not based solely on people in the work environment and his findings have significance for students of psychology and sociology too. He was concerned with trying to identify and classify the main needs that humans have. Our needs determine our actions According to Maslow (1943) Needs are psychological or physiological insufficiencies that provoke some type of behavioral response. In 1943 he proposed five different key in human needs, beginning with the physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs and lastly self-actualization.it suggests that basic...

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