January 2017
Beginner
480 pages
20h 20m
English
Three theories of employee motivation formulated during the 1950s are probably the best known. Although they are now of questionable validity (as we’ll discuss), they represent a foundation, and practicing managers still use their terminology.
The best-known theory of motivation is Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs,2 which hypothesizes that within every human being there is a hierarchy of five needs. Recently, a sixth need has been proposed for a highest level—intrinsic values—which is said to have originated from Maslow, but it has yet to gain widespread acceptance.3 The original five needs are:
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