Explore the wisdom of Abraham Maslow, the father of humanistic psychology, as he highlights the importance of self-actualization in achieving true happiness. Discover motivational quotes and insights ...

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 ...

When a client is struggling with financial or health needs in addition to personal or spiritual ones, it is common to make an appeal to "Maslow's hierarchy," according to which material needs, in some ...

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’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.

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 ...