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Presentation on Maslow’s
Hierarchy of Needs
By Geshan Manandhar
BIM 7th Semester
03-00097-2
Need
A need is the psychological feature that
arouses an organism to action toward a
goal and the reason for the action, giving
purpose and direction to behavior.
 Need is mainly biological.
 Needs must be satisfied to maintain a
stable state.
 So need fulfillment relates to OB.
Abraham Maslow
 Abraham Harold
Maslow was born April
1, 1908 in Brooklyn,
New York.
 He was a psychologist.
 Mostly noted today for
his proposal of a
hierarchy of human
needs and theory of
self-actualization.
Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs
 Maslow’s Hierarchy of
needs is a pyramid of
mainly 5 needs.
 He claims that the
fulfillment of lower
need arouses the
higher lever need to
be fulfilled.
 What motivates
employees?
The 5 Needs : 1. Physiological
 The physiological needs of the
organism, those enabling homeostasis,
take first precedence.
 These are bodily and biological needs
that are mandatory to fulfill.
 They can also be termed basic or
survival needs, so take highest
priority.
 It mainly includes needs like food, air,
water, sleep and sex.
2. Safety Needs
 When physiological needs are met, the
need for safety will emerge.
 Humans rank safety and security
above all desires.
 Safety needs incorporate most security
aspects including health, family and
social security.
 It includes needs like health security,
employment security, family security,
personal property against crime etc.
3. Love/Belongingness Needs
 After physiological and safety needs
are fulfilled, the third layer of human
needs is social.
 This encompasses emotionally-based
relationships in general.
 Mainly being accepted in a small or
large social group comes under this.
 It includes needs like friendship, family
relations etc.
4. Esteem Needs
 Maslow: All humans have a need to be
respected, to have self-respect, and to
respect others.
 Imbalances at this level can result in low
self-esteem & inferiority complexes.
 It includes confidence, competence, and
achievement to achieve fame and glory.
5. Self Actualization
 Self-actualization is the instinctual
need of humans to make the most of
their abilities and to strive to be the
best they can.
 In other words, self-actualization is
reaching one's fullest potential.
 Finally when one gets all the needs
below satisfied s/he craves to do and
become the perfectionist.
Criticisms
 It’sa relatively old theory so is not
relevant in present times.
 Multiple needs can so simultaneously
ex friendship (belongingness) and food
(physiological).
 Concept of self-actualization is
considered vague.
 Has been also been challenged on
grounds like: not everyone ultimately
seeks the self-actualization.
OB and Needs/Motivation
 There are other need/motivation
theory except of Maslow’s like
Herzberg’s two factor theory,
McGregor (X and Y Theroy) etc.
 As a manager or OB student we must
understand what really motivates a
person.
 It will help us motivate people to work
for the combined organizational goal.
Thank You.
 “Man is not the creature of
circumstances;circumstances are the
creatures of men.” By Benjamina
Disraeli