Description Maslow's hierarchy specifies the following levels: Physiological needs: These are the basic requirements for human physical survival. They include such essentials as food, water, shelter, oxygen, and sleep. When these needs are unmet, human beings will focus on satisfying them and will ignore higher needs. Safety needs: Once the individual's basic physical needs are met, his or her needs for safety emerge. These include needs for a sense of security and predictability in the world.
When the physical needs are taken care of, these second layers of needs comes into play. You will become increasingly interested in finding safe circumstances, stability, and protection. You might develop a need for structure, for order and to have some limits. Looking at it negatively, you become concerned, not with needs like hunger and thirst, but with your fears and anxieties. In the ordinary American adult, this set of needs manifest themselves in the form of our urges to have a home in a safe neighborhood, have some job security, money saved up, a retirement plan and insurance, and so on.
Needs at the bottom of the pyramid are basic physical requirements including the need for food, water, sleep and warmth. Once these lower-level needs have been met, people can move on to the next level of needs, which are for safety and security. As people progress up the pyramid, needs become increasingly psychological and social. Soon, the need for love, friendship and intimacy become important. Further up the pyramid, the need for personal esteem and feelings of accomplishment take priority.
Security needs are important for survival, but they do not take precedence over the physiological needs. The third level of the hierarchy is belongingness and love needs. Simply put, this is the social needs level, which includes friendship, family, and sexual intimacy. This level concerns our sense of belonging, feeling accepted, and the need to be loved, feeling human contact and connection in the social sense as well as relationship wise. If we do not belong to someone (relationship) or something (group setting), for
When these basic physiological needs are met people move onto the next level which is Safety. This includes security, stability, protection, and freedom from fear, anxiety, and chaos. The third level of needs is love and belonging. This encompasses the giving and receiving of affection through family, relationships, and work. When these needs are unmet a person will feel a sense of emptiness of these things.
We satisfy these needs to avoid unpleasant feelings or consequences. Once we satisfy our basic needs, we can move on to our next level of needs, which are for safety and security. When our basic needs have been met, our needs become more psychological and social. The need for love, friendship, and intimacy will soon become very important to us. The need for personal esteem and feelings of accomplishment start to have a higher priority.
Behavior is defined as the way a person conducts themselves towards others. Behavioral theory says that leadership takes a strong personality with a well-developed positive ego, and self -confidence is essential. The behavioral management theory tries to explain human behavior at work. It looks at the conflict, motivation, dynamics, productivity and expectations of humans and their work behavior. The main behavioral theories are, Maslow- theory of hierarchy, Douglas McGregor’s- Theory X and Theory Y. and Paul Hersey and Kenneth Balchard-Situational leadership model (directive behavior and supportive behavior) Maslow- theory of hierarchy, Abraham Maslow developed the need theories.
At the base of the pyramid are the very basic but the strongest needs – physiological, followed by safety, love/belonging, self-esteem and at the very top of the pyramid is self-actualization. According to Maslow, each individual should fulfill fundamental needs first in order to move to another, more advanced, level of needs. Physiologic needs are the most primitive of all needs and include the need for water, food, sleep, warmth etc. In this stage, I included pictures of the basic needs such as water, food and sleep. When an individual fulfills this basic level of needs he or she is then motivated to move to another level, which is security or safety needs.
These five needs are as follows-Physiological needs- These are the basic needs of air, water, food, clothing and shelter. In other words, physiological needs are the needs for basic amenities of life.Safety needs- Safety needs include physical, environmental and emotional safety and protection. For instance- Job security, financial security, protection from animals, family security, health security, etc.Social needs- Social needs include the need for love, affection, care, belongingness, and friendship.Esteem needs- Esteem needs are of two types: internal esteem needs (self- respect, confidence, competence, achievement and freedom) and external esteem needs (recognition, power, status, attention and admiration).Self-actualization need- This include the urge to become what you are capable of becoming / what you have the potential to become. It includes the need for growth and self-contentment. It also includes desire for gaining more knowledge, social- service, creativity and being aesthetic.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Bryan Criff Everest University Abram Maslow was a social psychologist who defined and described five stages of basic needs that humans thrive on and are motivated by. He proposed that we communicate to reach the range of these human needs. According to Maslow, our basic needs must be satisfied before we can focus on those that are more abstract. The five stages of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs are: physiological needs, safety needs, belonging needs, self-esteem needs, and self-actualization needs. By us looking into the concepts and gaining knowledge and understanding of these stages, we can also apply them to our daily life experiences.