Maslow and Taylor Essay

The maslow pyramid of motifs symbolise a theory needs and motivations of the 40s by Abraham maslow this pyramid is divided to 5 directs, harmonise to him the human being tries to come across one need in one level before they get weaving thinking about the following one the person start with the level at the bottom which is the bare necessities like food and the shelter when every last(predicate) physiological needs are stisfied the person steps up to the next level which is security (health, work, belongings) then they jump to the social needs where state need to be a part of a society a group a family where they can communicate and work as a team then the 4th need which is the esteem of then egos and people, people need to see that they are respected then the last one which is the self actualisation which measured by how people see themselfs and their success in challenges in their work On the different hand Taylor sees the work motivation differently and talks about it wi th a theory of scientific counselling which is mostly based on motivation by pay because according to him workers dont enjoy their work thats why they need to be controled. for that handlers should separate exertion into small tasks and workers should get the training for the task they are meant to do as they can work efficiently on their task , theses workers are compensable according to the number0 of items they have produced on a period of time which remind them to increase their productivity . in other words Taylor sees workers as machines and makes them over-exploited.The main difference between how maslow and taylor see the workers motivation is that the second thinks that money is the scarce motivation which we can see in everydays life that it is false, maslow separed motivation to 5 levels when the worker satisfies one level of needs he moves up to an other level and become more demanding this is why workers under taylorism went on strikes , because in that respect is many factors apart from income that affects the workers motivation like the working conditions the recognisation of their work , the greatings of the manager