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motivation from samson and daft managment textbook chapter 13 pg 477

As the gratification of these esteem needs create feelings of self-worth and personal capability , the employee is drawn to the peak of the Maslow hierarchy , a tension state perceived as a different of existence from those below . Physiological , security , belonging , and (at least the recognition-oriented ) esteem needs involve a deficit mechanism , that is gratification serves to fill the void that constitutes the need Development up the hierarchy ultimately moves a person to the motivational level of self-actualization . Maslow conceived of this category as encompassing those impulses that direct a mature

well-ed personality . This personality type is motivated by the need to create , to employ fully talents and energies in goal striving and problem solution , and to maintain autonomy and naturalness in dealing with the environment . These self-actualization components are dubbed "growth " rather than deficit needs (Gallager Einhorn , 1976 . While growth needs are acknowledged to be pleasant or desirable internal tensions , it is imperative to note that they are self-reinforcing Needless to say , need gratification brings about a persistent and amplified desire for further effort

Until recently , the importance in sociological studies was on the relationship between organizational structures and the consequences of their functioning . By developing a sense of theories of human nature operating in the organization , one can begin to describe the embedded the beliefs and the structures which may in part explain the emergence of organizational strategies in Human Relations and Human Rsources Adding to explanatory social theories by focusing on human nature models is , perhaps , the chief benefit of such a perspective . In addition specific s in organizational research can be further studied by human nature theorizing . For example , organizational control , the process of determining the actions of others , is conceptualized in two forms : classical , in which control is fixed , based on structure and authority , unilateral , and...

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