Maslow Pyramid Concept
Created by Abraham H. Maslow, and also known as the Pyramid of Needs, the Maslow Pyramid ranks the human needs in an ascendant scale with the aim to understand the people’s motivations.
The needs described by Maslow are, by ascending order, the following:
- Physiologic Needs: represent the instinctive needs of survival such as food, rest, protection against natural elements, etc.
- Safety Needs: emerge when the physiologic needs are satisfied and represent the needs of consistency and safety on the job and the protection against deprivations, dangers or threats.
- Social Needs: include the participation needs, to give and receive affection, friendship and love. Emerge after the satisfaction of the primary needs and its non satisfactions can lead to a lack of social fit and self-exclusion.
- Self-esteem Needs: correspond to the needs of self respects (self-assurance, social approval and consideration, professional prestige, dependency and autonomy); the non satisfaction of these needs can lead to inferiority and discouragement feelings.
- Self-fulfillment Needs: emerge after the satisfaction of all of the other needs, representing the highest human needs such as the need to achieve the personal development through the use of all capacities and potentials.
Despite currently being considered as misfit and far to reductive from the reality of the human needs, Maslow Pyramid continues to deserve the attention of the scholars and managers for being considered as the first characterization attempt of the Man’s needs.
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