Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs Essay

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a motivation theory, it is based on the psychology that proposed by Abraham Maslow who was a humanist psychologist in 1943. His theories were based on the human developmental psychology, which was parallel to other theories that all of which are focus on describing the stages of growth in humans.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is always shows in the shape of a pyramid, with the five needs into higher and lower levels. The basic four layers of the pyramid are called deficiency needs which include psychological, safety, social and esteem. The top level is called growth needs which include self-actualization. The deficiency needs are said to motivate people when they are unmet. The growth needs is more on the desire

The esteem needs occur because of a need to be respected. Esteem needs may be categorizes as internal and external. Internal esteem needs for self-respect including feelings of confidence, competence and achievement. External esteem needs are the needs of respect from others, for example the need of social status, recognition and reputation. Nestle give honour to their employees in following ways such as career management center, training and development program, shared responsibilities between employees and manager and human rights. Nestle is fully supports and respects the United Nations Global Compact’s two guiding principles on human rights. Nestle will not recruit the child labour to working in their

To better understand employee attitude and motivation, Frederick Herzberg performed studies to determine the factors in an employee’s working environment which caused satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Studies included interviews where employees were asked what pleased and displeased them about their work. Herzberg found that the factors causing job satisfaction were different from those causing dissatisfaction. He developed the motivation-hygiene theory to explain the results.

The satisfiers were called motivators and the dissatisfiers were called hygiene factors, using the term “hygiene” in the sense that they are considered maintenance factors that are necessary to avoid dissatisfaction but that by themselves do not provide satisfaction.

Some of the hygiene factor includes pay, company policies, fringe benefits, physical working conditions, status, interpersonal relations and job security. The hygiene factors symbolized the physiological needs which the individuals wanted and expected to be