Maslow Hierarchy and what Maslow missed

 

The Hierarchy of needs suggests that if essential needs are met then an person can focus on higher needs such as self-esteem and respect, subsequently reaching a ‘meta motivated’ state. (Maslow, 1943)

Maslow refers to those three stages as efficiency needs, asserting that if these three areas aren't met then the individual will experience negative physiological and psychological consequences.(Maslow,1954)

Adopted by forbes.com

 

(H O N) model, Developed in 1948, the hierarchy of needs is pervasive across many disciplines, including business, management, marketing, parenting technology, education, and psychology.

Simple, orderly, intuitively sensible, cognitively appealing and offering order out of chaos, the hierarchy of needs has just one problem: it's plain, flat, and dead wrong.(Denning,2012)

It’s similar in some senses to video games therein you have to meet the requirements of one set of needs before you'll get to subsequent level up. The third level in this model comprises the social needs like family, affection, relationships, work groups, and community.

The human mind at the base is driven through a primary instinct to survive with meals drink and shelter.

In reviews of studies based on Maslow’s theory, little proof has been discovered for the ranking of needs that Maslow defined or maybe for the existence of a exact hierarchy at all.

The system of human needs from bottom to top, shelter, safety, sex, leadership, community, competence and trust, are hooked in to our ability to attach with others.
Belonging to a community provides the sense of security and agency that creates our brains happy and helps keep us safe.” Whether it’s the traditional Savannah or today’s Face book and Twitter, social behaviors adapt to the environment to support that the majority basic of human needs. (Rutledge, 2011)

Conclusion

It provided an unrealistic route to meeting these needs: ascension up the hierarchy of needs toward self-actualization. In reality, Rutledge’s rewired model of psychological needs suggests a more sensible set of multiple paths, thru social connection, to meet our various psychology needs. What it implies, and the experience of radical administration confirms is that getting work done by humans working collectively in self-organizing teams can meet most people’s psychological needs except positing unrealistic goals of self-actualization as the be-all and end-all of life.

 

References

A.Maslow, (1943). “A theory of human motivation”, vol.50, no.04, pp.370-396.

 

A.Maslow, (1954)."Motivation and personality",New York, NY: Harper.

 

S.King-Hill, 2015, “Critical Analysis of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need”, The Step Journal, vol.02, no.04, pp.54-57.

 

S.Denning,2012,“whatMaslowmissed”,Forbes,29thMarch,(https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2012/03/29/what-maslow-missed/amp/) accessesed 23 Nov. 2020 at 6.00am.

 

P.Rutledge, 2011,"Social networks:What Maslow misses",Psychology today,8th November, (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/positively-media/201111/social-networks-what-maslow-misses-0), accessed 23 Nov.2020 at 6.15a.m.