Physiological needs are the the basic requirements for human survival, like air, food, water, sleep, and warmth. If any of those requirements can’t be met, human’s life would be under threat by it. In the workplace, managers could …show more content…
The main reason is that this theory has fixed order, and the only way to get to the higher level is to finish the lower level first. However, in the real society, due to the different background, values and social environment, people’s hierarchy of needs is different than the Abraham’s. For instance, the person who is an individualist and view the personal development and growth is the most important thing, he wouldn’t get satisfied by the rich friendship or the good relationship with colleague. Instead, in his hierarchy he puts the self-actualization before the belongingness and love needs, because he pays more attention on the …show more content…
But some analysts disagree with the statement; they think the Maslow’s need hierarchy might inverse the relationship between working performance and job satisfaction. For example, when an employee performing well on his job, the manager should offers a reward to him, and when employee received a reward as a result of his hardworking, his job satisfaction would increase, this argument argues that, count into the effect of reward, it should be employee’s performance causing their job satisfaction increase, but not the job satisfaction cause an increase of working