...individual different from one another. Personalities controls out emotion, unconscious feeling, and behavior making it difficult to determine how a person will react to certain situation. Using the Maslow’s Hirarchy needs can help demonstrate the reason for humanistic approaches and the growth influence of each individual personality. Using the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs growth influence personality based on five major categories of each individual. The first is physiological needs such as food, clothing, sleep, oxygen, and shelter. To get through life individuals personality has to encounter the physiological need in order to live as a human. The second level is safety and security, each individual has a sense that he or she feels he or she has to be protected from others in certain circumstances. Having that pride makes the individual feel secure. Once an individual develops a since of security the third category includes needs, such as sense of belonging and loved. These feelings formatted as a cycle; while an individual feels secure, the feeling of wanting to be love and feeling of being accepted come into place. Consisting with self-esteem, self-esteem is a need for respect, education, and achievement. The last category is need for self-actualization, when an individual have the need to be observed by others. There are those who constantly try to do things to grasp another attention. Self-actualization can start from just seeing others doing really well and the individual would...
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...Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 What is Employee Happiness, Does it Matter?...............................................................................4 Employee Dissatisfaction………………………………………………………………………….6 Figure 1 – Average Work Day ………….…….………………………………......7 Employee Needs…………………………………………………………………………………..8 Figure 2 – Maslow’s Hierarchy Needs……………………………………………9 Supporting Employees…………………………………………………………………………...10 Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………….12 References……………………………………………………………………………………….13 Abstract Employee satisfaction is essential to any organization being successful. Organizational leaders have been trying to increase productivity for generations. Understanding what drives an employee and their happiness in the workplace is the critical task for managers and the success rate of the company. This paper describes why employees are unhappy at work, the effects of not being satisfied, what is needed to make employees happy and how supporting those employee needs will benefit the organization What is Employee Happiness, Does it Matter? Most people when they hear employee happiness they think about the meaning of the word happy which is a feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. Most even associate the word happy with joyful, cheery, in a good mood, fun, satisfied or contentment. Another aspect of happiness is how well one’s life is in a broader sense. How satisfied, meaningful or purposeful our life...
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...Introduction Organisational behavior is a subject that covers a wide variety of topics such as, such as motivation, leadership and organizational design- that relate to different aspects of behavior in organizations. Examining these topics has involved incorporating perspectives and insights from a number of disciplines including psychology, economics, sociology and politics.’ (Knights and Willmott, 2007:p.3) Numerous disciplines that explore the complexity and diversity of collective human activity have contributed to the formation and development of OB. Something of this complexity is apparent in the sometimes conflicting purposes and objective embraced by, or attributed to, management and organizations. Given the demanding nature of organizing and managing people, it is not surprising that OB is widely regarded as the foundation of management studies. (Knights and Willmott, 2007:p.3)Within the notion of behavior, including thinking and feeling as well as acting. OB aspires to have relevance for understanding the behavior of people working at all hierarchical levels- from the workers employed part-time or on a casual basis on the shop floor or in the office to the most senior executive. Each is involved in processes of organizing and being organized and managing and being managed. OB should be better to understand how and why people are organized; to identify and assess the likely consequences of making changes; and to introduce changes in ways that anticipate and minimize...
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