Abraham Maslow built a pyramid of a different sort, and it has come to play a role in employee motivation, but some say that’s a mistake. In 1943 Maslow published his famous theory on the “Hierarchy ...

Personality psychologists study individual differences. It’s a finer-grained analysis than group differences. You can be assigned to a group based on your gender, race, ethnicity, and so on. But, ...

If you’ve ever taken a general psychology course, you’ve seen Maslow’s pyramid of motives—it’s one of the field’s most vivid and memorable images. Maslow proposed a hierarchy of motives, with those at ...

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is arranged into a pyramid of either five or seven levels. The five-level version includes physiological needs such as food and water, the need for safety and security, the ...

TEMPE, Ariz. – If you have ever felt that your children are your life's work, then you may in fact be recognizing a high-level psychological need. Caring for your children, feeding them, nurturing ...

Recently Mike Michalowicz, one of the most prominent authors on entrepreneurship and small and medium-sized enterprises ( SMEs), launched his new book Fix This Next, which we could translate as Solve ...

At some point in their careers, most leaders have either consciously — or, more likely, unwittingly — based (or justified) their approach to motivation on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Maslow’s idea ...