PRINCIPAL OF

MANAGEMENT
(MOTIVATION)
By shatishvaraj
Rajendran

Question 1

You are a Program Manager for College

Professional Baitumal and you have 20
lecturers as your staff. Your lecturers
have differences in terms of age, gender,
race and religion. These differences
cause you to face a challenge on how to
motivate them. Discuss the strategies
that you can use to motivate your team.

What Is Motivation
The willingness to exert high levels of effort to

reach organizational goals, conditioned by the

efforts ability to satisfy some individual need
Motivation is the answer to the question Why
we do what we do?. The motivation theories
try to figure out what the M is in the
equation: M motivates P (Motivator
motivates the Person).

Hierarchy of needs
theory(Maslow)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is a popular

way of thinking about people's needs.
Published by psychologist Abraham
Maslow in his 1943 article, "A Theory of
Human Motivation," this theory contends
that as humans strive to meet our most
basic needs, we also seek to satisfy a
higher set of needs.

Maslow presents this set of needs as a

hierarchy, consisting of:
Physiological/bodily

needs.

Safety

needs.
Love/belonging needs.
Self-esteem.
Self-actualization (the desire to be "all
that you can be").

Understanding the theory

Maslow's hierarchic theory is often

represented as a pyramid, with the lower
levels representing the more fundamental
needs, and the upper levels representing
the growth/being needs, and ultimately
the need for self-actualization.
According to the theory, the higher needs
in the hierarchy become evident only
after all the needs that are lower down in
the pyramid are met.
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Level 1: Physiology, Body

Physiological needs are biological needs and

include the needs for oxygen, food, water,
shelter, etc. They are the basis for the
hierarchy and are the strongest needs

Level 2: Security

According to Maslow, the need for security

becomes evident only after a person's
physiological needs are met. While most
adults are not acutely aware of security needs
until a crisis arises.
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Level 3: Belonging, Social

Once the needs for safety are met, the need for a
sense of belonging, one in which a give-and-take
relationship is nurtured, becomes evident.

Level 4: Self-Esteem
Once the first three classes of needs are met, the
need for self-esteem can become dominant. Because
this includes the esteem a person gets from others.
This will positively impact the employee and the
employee's motivation levels, productivity, ability to
work on a team and alone, etc.

Level 5: Self-Actualization

The need for self-actualization develops only

after all of the foregoing needs are satisfied.
According to Maslow, self-actualization is a
person's need to do that which he or she feels
they are meant to do.

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Using this theory

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs is not so

much a technique or process to use as an
idea to have in mind when you're
thinking about how you meet a team
member's needs (for example, during a
quarterly review).
As such, Maslow's Hierarchy gives hardpressed managers "permission" to be
"good bosses", knowing that as such,
they're doing their best to build highly
effective, highly productive teams.
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Reference

http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierar
chy_of_needs
http://
www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm
http://
web.cortland.edu/andersmd/maslow/hom
epage.html

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THANK YOU FOR

STAYING AWAKE

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