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Written by Michel Bergijk

Category: English articles

Published: 15 March 2013

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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and the Person

This is the first article in a series of three. The other articles are:

2. Maslow and the Organisation;
3. Maslow and the Nation;

Within Business Administration, the Industrial and Organisational Psychology, and Industrial Sociology Maslow is well known. Maslow was among the Humanistic psychology who believed that every person has a strong desire to realize his or her full potential, to reach a level of "self-actualization".

In 1943 Abraham Maslow published a paper titled "A Theory of Human Motivation". In this paper he worked out a hierarchy of needs. In order to fulfil its full potential in development a person must go through a number of successive categories. According to Maslow's theory a category needs largely to be met before the next category could be worked on.

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