Advantages Of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Theory

Introduction

All company have their own goals and objectives to achieve success in the future. Goals and objectives are important to each company because the performance of a company can be seen on how effectively they achieve their goals. Every organization should have a motivated work force as it is the key elements to the productivity of the work, job performance and the maintenance of healthy working environment. In any workplace, employees are the root that holds the organization together to help reach their long term vision and goals successfully. Its implementation is mainly depend on the employee, the worker itself because it counts the effort they put into their work to make sure the company is successful. It is an absolute necessity

This theory claims that individuals’ most basic needs must be met before the other needs can serve as motivator. It emphasizes the social needs that relates to the employees motivation in the workplace. Social needs is the need for love, affection and sense of belongingness in one’s relationship with other persons. In order to satisfy the needs, the organization need to develop good relationship among their employees so that they were able to feel valued and motivated to work harder. The main strength of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory is the identification of individual needs of what energizes (motivates) individuals. By appealing to an employee’s unfulfilled needs, organization may influence performance. If the organization can understand the factors that lead employees to perform at a higher level, they can increase the performance of their entire

Based on what we have discussed, we believe that companies often struggle to deal with the challenge of enhancing productivity of the work in order to maximize the profits of their organizations. The maximization of profits can be seen on how effectively they manage their business operations whereby they attract highly trained employees as well as retaining skilled employees. Best company has best people because they are surrounded by ‘winners’. In order to create ‘winners’, each organization should have the best ways to motivate their employees because organizational success is not achievable where employees are not motivated enough to fulfill their work