Influence, Influencing and Influencer

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 In this 21st century, world has totally changed as it was before few century ago. Before people used to live in the forest, in the bare land, hunting all day for food without any proper objectives or goals. But as time past, they learned the importance of house, they learned the importance of basic needs and they learned that it is necessary to have a specific goal, so that they can contribute to the society or country they live. Because of that, at this present time, we are so lucky to have roads, buildings, health care services, well developed communication systems and other necessary facilities. Have you ever thought that how we human being (social animal) have developed so much as compare to other species in earth? Have you ever though how fast we are evolving as compare to other animals and how we are controlling other animals in earth?  Well, the answer for these question is influence. If you have done self evaluation then you will know how easily we get influence by th...
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Maslow's Hierarchy Theory of Needs For Motivation - How it can be used to motivate people in real life

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This article contains information related to Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs of human being and how this need can be used as a tool to motivate people. https://bizmgnt.blogspot.com/

 

The founder of Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs is Abraham Maslow. He introduced this idea first in 1943 AD in his paper titled “A Theory of Human Motivation”, and later in his book “Motivation and Personality”.

From the beginning, Abraham Maslow was interested in studying about what makes people behavior change in positive way and what encourages people to do work or to achieve their aim.  After doing lots of research, he made pyramid of needs by studying people needs and desire with the most basic needs or desires in bottom part and the most complex needs or desires at the top. His five stages of pyramid of hierarchy of needs is one of the most famous and best known theories of motivation.

 

According to Abraham Maslow, people actions are motivated by their needs and desires. To fulfill their needs and desires, people do work. And after fulfilling that particular need, ultimately another need arises and then this cycle keeps on moving.

 For instance, a child might have dream to complete his/her school level and to fulfill his/her dream child goes to school and complete his/her school level. And after completing school level he/she might dream to get college degree and to complete this he/she might join college and so on.

 

Pyramid of Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs

 

 


 There are five different needs in Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs of Motivation and they are:

Physiological needs

Safety needs

Love and Belonging needs

Esteem needs

Self-Actualization needs

 

 

Physiological needs:

                                        The physiological needs are the basic needs of people. It means that without these needs people cannot survive.  Physiological needs include:

·        Water

·        Food

·        Breathing

·        Shelter

·        Cloths

Food and water are the basic needs of people without it people cannot survive. For human begins, physiological needs are the important needs as compare to other needs. So, Abraham Maslow had put this need in the bottom of the pyramid.

 

Safety needs:

                            After fulfillment of physiological needs, demand of safety needs start to arise. At this point, safety needs become important. Safety needs includes:

·        Health Security

·        Financial Security

·        Insurance against accident

In this stage, people start to search job, health insurance and safety of their savings. People start to solve their problem related to their health, work and security against their saving and for this their action is directed towards working hard.

 

Love and Belongings:

 According to Maslow, feeling of love and belonging come after the fulfilment of physiological needs and safety needs. At this level, people actions are directed towards getting relationship with other people. Love and belonging includes:

·        Family

·        Friendship

·        Loved one

·        Society

·        Community

At some point of life, people might get depression and might feel lonely, so in order to cope up with such situation, people start to fulfill love and belonging needs.

 

Esteem needs:

This is the fourth level needs of Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs. After getting satisfied from the bottom three levels of needs, esteem needs start to direct human action. Esteem needs includes:

·        Appreciation

·        Respect

·        Prestige

·        Accomplishment

At this level, people start to feel that they should be values by other. They start to feel that their work and participation should be valued and respect by other.

 

Self-Actualization needs:

             Self-Actualization needs is located at the top of Maslow’s Hierarchy Need which come after the fulfillment of four bottom needs of pyramid. Self-Actualization includes:

·        Self-aware

·        Personal growth

·        Increasing potential

According to Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs, self-actualization needs are describe as full utilization of own skills and knowledge in order to solve problem or to increase personal growth and skill by showing their true potential and capacity.

 

 

 

Thus, Abraham Maslow’s believed that all the needs of people start from the bottom of pyramid and follow the needs hierarchy. Many business organizations and education field have been influenced by this theory. But many other people have criticized Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need. They criticized that:

·        All the needs of Maslow’s do not follow hierarchy

·        Difficult to experiment in real life

 

 

How to use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to motivate people?

In this modern world, motivated people are key element of business organization in order to survive in competitive market. In business organization, motivated staffs are very essential in order to run day to day operation of business, to solve the problem that may arise in business and also to grow in competitive market.

Motivated people or staffs mean that people or staffs who are satisfied with the organization offers and willing to use their true potential and capacity in order to complete business task for both organization and staff benefits. Thus, in every organization or company, motivated people play vital role.

 

Every business organization or company should motivate their staff in order to use their true potential. For this, leader or manager can use Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to motivate their staff.

-        If staff is facing problem to fulfill basic needs then a manager can easily motivate their staff by offering basic salary to survive.

-        If staff is having insecurity in job and fearing about job then a manager can provide security and guarantee of job to motivate staff.

-        If staff is working alone and feeling lonely then manager can motivate such staff by involving him/her in group work and involving in group decision.

-        Similarly, if staff has capacity to achieve something them manager must give opportunity to show his/her talent, skill, experience and knowledge.

 

In this way by using Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs can be used to motivate staff in any organization, so that organization can utilize the true potential and capacity of their staff to run business smoothly.

 

 If you find this article about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow's and how it can be used to motivate staff helpful then please let me know through comment. Similarly, if you have any query related to this topic then please feel free to comment. https://bizmgnt.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

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