Applications of Maslow’s Theory to a real-world context

• Workplace organisations


  Enhance performance
• Human resources


  Address and fulfil the needs of employees
• Employee needs addressed by managers

  • Physiological needs
  • Safety needs
  • Love and belongingness needs
  • Esteem needs
  • Self-actualisation needs
• Physiological needs


  • Providing wages that sustain a decent standard of living
  • Providing health insurance for comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Safety needs


  • Job stability
  • Secure working conditions
  • Anti-harassment policies
• Love and belongingness needs

  • Team-building exercises
  • Social gatherings
• Esteem needs


  • Leadership roles
  • Merit-based promotions
  • Regular performance evaluations
  • Coaching others
  • Recognising expertise
• Self-actualisation needs


  • Ensure that job roles align with employees' talents and passions
  • Environment that encourages innovation
  • Sponsor continuing education
• Benefits, training, and performance evaluations address employee needs
• Managers can address physiological needs by providing wages that sustain a decent standard of living and providing health insurance for comprehensive healthcare benefits
• Managers can address safety needs through job stability, secure working conditions, and anti-harassment policies
• Managers can address love and belongingness needs through team-building exercises and social gatherings
• Managers can address esteem needs through leadership roles, merit-based promotions, regular performance evaluations, coaching others, and recognising expertise
• Managers can address self-actualisation needs by ensuring that job roles align with employees' talents and passions, providing an environment that encourages innovation, and sponsoring continuing education
• Hierarchy


  • Provides a framework for understanding patients as multifaceted human beings
• Nurses must assess


  1. Physical needs

  2. Mental needs

  3. Emotional needs

  4. Social needs
• Doing so


  Motivates care, faster healing, and improved outcomes
• Physiological needs


  • Nutrition
  • Hydration
  • Pain control
  • Sleep
  • Physical comfort
• Safety needs


  • Quiet environment
  • Bells for assistance
  • Prevent medication errors
  • Prevent injuries from falling
• Belongingness


  Family visitation, feeling welcomed
• Esteem


  Show respect, make them feel valued
• Self-actualisation


  Sharing motivational stories of those with similar diagnoses
• Maslow's (1962) hierarchy of needs theory


  A major contribution to teaching and classroom management in schools
• Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory

  • Looks at the complete physical, emotional, social, and intellectual qualities of an individual and how they impact learning
• Before a student's cognitive needs can be met

  They must first fulfill their basic physiological needs
• A tired and hungry student will find it difficult to focus on learning since their physiological needs are not being met, so their cognitive needs will not be able to be met