Maslow's theory of motivation proposes a hierarchy of needs that motivates human behavior. At the lowest level are physiological needs like food, water, shelter and safety, followed by love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization at the highest level. While people are at different levels of the hierarchy, the ultimate motivation is self-actualization. As lower needs are met, higher needs emerge to motivate behavior. The hierarchy applies to individuals, organizations, and societies as they progress through satisfying different needs over time.

1. MASLOW’S
Theory of Motivation
Dr Madhu Prabakaran

2. ■ What makes us to do whatever we do?

7. Motivation
■ What makes people to do (motive) well what ever they
do?
■ Food, Shelter, clothing?
■ Security? Safety?
■ Friendship, intimacy, brand name?
■ Esteem? Status? Recognition?
■ Self actualization?

8. Are the needs same for all?

10. The Answer is
■No
■Yes

11. Why No?
■ Because people are at different levels of
their hierarchy of needs

13. But Why Yes?
■ Self Actualization is everybody’s need
■ All of us are in the same hierarchy of
needs, but first they have to meet their
lower level needs!

15. ■ Instinctually all humans are motivated towards
self-actualization, however it is repressed,
suppressed, hidden or controlled
■ As they discover higher levels of needs they
will only be motivated by it.
■ Instinct directed quests- which people
discover- as their lower level needs are fulfilled
■ Exceptionally, people are ready to sacrifice
lower level needs

17. ■ Not merely individuals, organizations &
civilizations move in the hierarchy of
motivation-
■ Maslow termed the instinct that guides at
the hierarchy of need as “instinctoid”

18. “I have used the invented term "instinctoid" to
indicate my firm belief that these data have
already proven sufficiently that these needs are
related to the fundamental structure of the
human organism itself, that there is some
genetic basis that is involved, however weak this
may be.” - Maslow

20. Intra-personal
personal
Inter-personal
Trans-personal
Degrees of Personhood

21. Trans-personal

25. Organizational

26. Maslow’s later model

27. Self Actualization?
“Self-actualizing people are, without one single
exception, involved in a cause outside their own
skin, in some thing outside of themselves. They
are devoted. working at something. something
which is very precious to them-some calling or
vocation in the old sense, the priestly sense.” _
Maslow

28. “self-actualization is not only an end state but
also the process of actualizing one's
potentialities at any time, in any amount. It is. for
example, a matter of becoming smarter by
studying if one is an intelligent person. Self-
actualization means using one's intelligence.” -
Maslow

29. So,….
What is the learning?
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References:
1.Maslow, A., (1971). The Farther reaches of Human Nature. New York:
Penguin Books
2. ------ (1987). Motivation and Personality. New York: Harper & Row

30. ■ Thank You