Gender Descrimination Essay

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Compare and contrast two models of human motivation drawing out their implications for their effectiveness in managing people at work. Human motivation is a driving force humans utilise to achieve goals. Abraham Maslow and David McClelland are two theorists who have created different models to outline human motivation and their initial impact on individuals in the workforce. When considering the foundations of motivation, it can also be defined as a person’s perspective on what they consider to be motivation (‘New World Encyclopaedia McClelland, David’ n.d.). Since then, many management theorists have been trying to understand what the underlying meanings of human motivation in organisations are. Two significant theorists that had many impacts within business organisations are Abraham Maslow and David McClelland. Both McClelland and Maslow have introduced unique and distinctive models of human motivation, one being ‘Acquired Needs Theory’ proposed by McClelland (Human Motivation Theory – David McClelland n.d.) and ‘Hierarchy Theory of Needs’ proposed by Abraham Maslow (Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs from Psychology 1987). Both of these theories put forward by Maslow and McClelland can be effective and ineffective in their own respect. David McClelland’s theory was established in 1961(David McClelland's motivational needs theory n.d.). It represents that a person’s needs are influenced by their cultural background and life experiences. This theory ‘also represents the fact that majority of these needs can be classified as the needs for affiliation and achievement or power’ (Human Motivation Theory – David McClelland n.d.). A person’s motivation and work ethic can be increased through their environment, which provides them with their ideal mix of each of the three main needs that this theory is based on. The need for affiliation is the need for friendly
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