Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow(1908-1970)
He was an American Phychologist.He is noted for him his conceptualization of a hierarchy of human needs,and is considered the father of humanistic psychology.Maslow concluded
that human needs are organized in a hierarchy of needs include:
1) Basic physiological needs
2) Safety from external danger
3) Love, affection and social activity
4) Esteem and self-respect
5) Self actualization needs
When a self-actualizer doesn’t pursue his or her “calling” and/or is stifled by a highly disruptive environment the result can be stress, depression, despair, disgust, alienation, and a degree of cynicism.
His “Hierarchy of Needs Theory” remains valid today for understanding human motivation, management training, and personal development. Indeed, Maslow's ideas surrounding the Hierarchy of Needs concerning the responsibility of employers to provide a workplace environment that encourages and enables employees to fulfil their own unique potential (self-actualization) are today more relevant than ever.








Each of us is motivated by needs. Our most basic needs are inborn, having evolved over tens of thousands of years. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs helps to explain how these needs motivate us all. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs states that we must satisfy each need in turn, starting with the first, which deals with the most obvious needs for survival itself. Only when the lower order needs of physical and emotional well-being are satisfied are we concerned with the higher order needs of influence and personal development.
Conversely, if the things that satisfy our lower order needs are swept away, we are no longer concerned about the maintenance of our higher order needs.
Maslow's original Hierarchy of Needs model was developed between 1943-1954, and first widely published in Motivation and Personality in 1954. At this time the Hierarchy of Needs model comprised five needs. This original version remains for most people the definitive Hierarchy of Needs.
Maslow saw these issues fifty years ago:” The fact that employees have a basic human need and a right to strive for self-actualisation, just as much as the corporate directors and owners do”.

Resources
Ananymous. “Maslow’s Hierarchy: A Framework For Ynderstanding Ourselves?”. Business Owner. Vol 30(2), 2006.

Dye, Kelly ve Diğerleri. “Maslow: Man Interrupted: Reading Management Theory In Context”. Management Decision. Vol 43(10), 2005.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Maslow - 66k

Why Maslow?
I admire Maslow because, in my opinion, his theory about needs Works in real life. When we look at the pyramid about needs, we see that he ordered human necessities and unless people fill the needs on the first step, they cant get the upper steps. Also these needs shape the behaviours of people. People’s need increase by increasing their degree of development. For an instance; To eat his fill is a basic need for a pensioner in a lower degree. But to eat a balanced diet for a person in a upper degree may be a basic need too.