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This document discusses hierarchy theory and summarizes the five levels of needs according to Maslow - basic needs, safety needs, love and belongingness, self-esteem needs, and self-actualization. It provides examples of how managers can account for each level of needs for their employees. It also briefly discusses the differences between Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory and ERG theory, noting that Maslow's has five ascending levels while ERG has three, and that Maslow believed needs are fulfilled sequentially while ERG believes multiple needs can be met simultaneously.

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OB Assignment 2

This document discusses hierarchy theory and summarizes the five levels of needs according to Maslow - basic needs, safety needs, love and belongingness, self-esteem needs, and self-actualization. It provides examples of how managers can account for each level of needs for their employees. It also briefly discusses the differences between Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory and ERG theory, noting that Maslow's has five ascending levels while ERG has three, and that Maslow believed needs are fulfilled sequentially while ERG believes multiple needs can be met simultaneously.

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Hierarchy Theory

Basic Needs:
These include food ,shelter ,water ,clothing ,medicine ,air & etc.
Example:
As a manager, you can account for the physiological needs of your employees by providing comfortable
working conditions, reasonable work hours and the necessary breaks to use the bathroom and eat and/or
drink.

Safety needs:
Security of life, property and job .Low Income groups busy themselves in satisfy these first two needs through
their life.
Example
As a manager, you can account for the safety needs of your employees by providing safe working
conditions, secure compensation (such as a salary) and job security, which is especially important in a bad
economy.

Love & Belongingness:


Human nature is full of belongingness & affection .He has love for children, brothers, sisters and so on.he want to
make a belong to a group, the group may family, friends or company.
Example
you can account for the social needs of your employees by making sure each of your employees know one
another, encouraging cooperative teamwork, being an accessible and kind supervisor and promoting a good
work-life balance.

Self-esteem needs:
This is the need of self-respect. It is accomplished by owing a car, jewels, bungalow, big title of the job. Only a few
persons are able to satisfy this need.
Example
As a manager, you can account for the esteem needs of your employees by offering praise and recognition
when the employee does well, and offering promotions and additional responsibility to reflect your belief
that they are a valued employee.

Self-actualization:
It lies at the highest rung of the ladder of needs. Here the person is more concerned of the welfare of
other rather than himself It is most difficult to satisfy.
Example
The most famous example of Self-actualization is Shahid Afridi after serving Pakistan as a famous former
captain in cricket, He started Shahid Afridi Foundation (Charitable Organization) for the welfare of humanity.

The Differences Between Maslow’s Theory and the ERG


Theory
One of the primary differences between these two theories is that Maslow’s theory has five
ascending levels, and the ERG theory only has three levels. In fact, in the ERG theory, existence
equates to Maslow’s first two levels of physical and security needs, relatedness equates to
Maslow’s next two levels of social needs and ego needs, and growth equates to Maslow’s final
level of self-actualization.

Another difference is that Maslow believes each need is fulfilled one at a time in ascending order,
whereas Alderfer believes that more than one need can be fulfilled at the same time. In other
words, Maslow’s theory is that everyone’s needs progress through the specific five-level pyramid
structure, whereas the ERG theory is that people satisfy their needs in different ways at different
levels.

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