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 ...

Marafiote, T. (2025) Motivation in Contemporary Education Practice: A Critical Review and Research Proposal. Psychology, 16, ...

If you’re not familiar with self-actualization, the idea comes from renowned psychologist Abraham Maslow's theory of human motivation. Maslow hypothesized that unsatisfied needs drive our behavior.

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 ...

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 ...

Academic thinking around motivation has developed considerably over time. Here Stuart Pritchard, winner of the HR magazine and Roffey Park research competition, explores how the major theories have ...

The effects of monetary compensation on performance are often debated. One of the most popular theories on the subject is psychologist Frank Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory. Somewhat derived from ...

Managers sometimes spend significant resources in attempts to motivate their employees, as motivated workers are most often more productive. Motivation is a desire to complete a given task or achieve ...