I need help with Maslow's hierarchy of needs. PLEASE.?

Question

what exactly are the needs ?
and how studying for a business degree might help you satisfy that need?

Answer 1

In this order: Physiological, Safety, Love/Belonging, Esteem, Self-Actualization

You can be creative with the second part of your question. Your business degree will help you get a job to handle most of the physiological needs (ie. water and food). You get security from your job. You build relationships with classmates and co-workers. Earning a degree will help boost confidence and you'll have a sense of achievement. Lastly, you learn how to be creative and solve problems.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

1. Physiological
2. Safety
3. Belongingness
4. Self-esteem
5. Self -actualization

Getting a degree in business is not a sure way to get any of those because everyone of us has a different story to tell and different path to go.

But usually, getting a HIGHER degree is definite manifestation of a future self-esteem (and eventaully, self-actualization) satifaction. Self-actualization is very hard to get, since it is in the highest level in the hierarchy.

Answer 3

copy this link to your address bar. I studied that subject but kinda hard to explain on paper

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Answer 4

Deficiency needs
The deficiency needs (also termed 'D-needs' by Maslow) are:


Physiological needs
The physiological needs of the organism, those enabling homeostasis, take first precedence. These consist mainly of:

the need to breathe
the need to drink water
the need to regulate homeostasis
the need to eat
the need to dispose of bodily wastes
If some needs are not fulfilled, a human's physiological needs take the highest priority. Physiological needs can control thoughts and behaviors, and can cause people to feel sickness, pain, and discomfort.

Maslow also places sexual activity in this category as bodily comfort, activity, exercise, etc. While several of these activities are important, many are not essential to survive.


Safety needs
When physiological needs are met, the need for safety will emerge. Safety and security rank above all other desires. These include:

Physical security - safety from violence, delinquency, aggressions
Security of employment
Security of revenues and resources
Moral and physiological security
Family security
Security of health
Security of personal property against crime
Sometimes the desire for safety outweighs the requirement to satisfy physiological needs completely.


Love/Belonging needs
After physiological and safety needs are fulfilled, the third layer of human needs is social. This involves emotionally-based relationships in general, such as:

friendship
sexual intimacy
having a supportive and communicative family
Humans generally need to feel belonging and acceptance, whether it comes from a large social group (clubs, office culture, religious groups, professional organizations, sports teams, gangs) or small social connections (family members, intimate partners, mentors, close colleagues, confidants). They need to love and be loved (sexually and non-sexually) by others. In the absence of these elements, many people become susceptible to loneliness, social anxiety, and depression.


Esteem needs
According to Maslow, all humans have a need to be respected, to have self-respect, and to respect others. People need to engage themselves in order to gain recognition and have an activity or activities that give the person a sense of contribution and self-value, be it in a profession or hobby. Imbalances at this level can result in low self-esteem, inferiority complexes, an inflated sense of self-importance or snobbishness. There are two levels to Esteem needs. The lower of the levels relates to elements like fame, respect, and glory. The higher level is contingent to concepts like confidence, competence, and achievement. The lower level is generally considered poor. It is dependent upon other people, or someone who needs to be reassured because of lower esteem. People with low esteem need respect from others. They may seek fame or glory, which again are dependent on others. However confidence, competence and achievement only need one person and everyone else is inconsequential to one's own success.


Growth needs
Though the deficiency needs may be seen as "basic", and can be met and neutralized (i.e. they stop being motivators in one's life), self-actualization and transcendence are "being" or "growth needs" (also termed "B-needs"), i.e. they are enduring motivations or drivers of behaviour.


Self-actualization
Self-actualization is the instinctual need of humans to make the most of their unique abilities and to strive to be the best they can be.

Self Actualization is the intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately, of what the organism is. (Psychological Review, 1949)
Maslow writes the following of self-actualizing people:

They embrace the facts and realities of the world (including themselves) rather than denying or avoiding them.
They are spontaneous in their ideas and actions.
They are creative.
They are interested in solving problems; this often includes the problems of others. Solving these problems is often a key focus in their lives.
They feel a closeness to other people, and generally appreciate life.
They have a system of morality that is fully internalized and independent of external authority.
They judge others without prejudice, in a way that can be termed objective.
In short, self-actualization is reaching one's fullest potential.


Self-transcendence
At the top of the triangle, self-transcendence is also sometimes referred to as spiritual needs.




Maslow believes that we should study and cultivate peak experiences as a way of providing a route to achieve personal growth, integration, and fulfillment. Peak experiences are unifying, and ego-transcending, bringing a sense of purpose to the individual and a sense of integration. Individuals most likely to have peak experiences are self-actualized, mature, healthy, and self-fulfilled. All individuals are capable of peak experiences. Those who do not have them somehow depress or deny them.
Maslow originally found the occurrence of peak experiences in individuals who were self-actualized, but later found that peak experiences happened to non-actualizers as well but not as often. In his The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (New York, 1971) he writes:

I have recently found it more and more useful to differentiate between two kinds of self-actualizing people, those who were clearly healthy, but with little or no experiences of transcendence, and those in whom transcendent experiencing was important and even central … It is unfortunate that I can no longer be theoretically neat at this level. I find not only self-actualizing persons who transcend, but also nonhealthy people, non-self-actualizers who have important transcendent experiences. It seems to me that I have found some degree of transcendence in many people other than self-actualizing ones as I have defined this term …


Having a business degree or any degree will satisfy your Esteem needs. You will feel more stable, firmly based, high level of self-respect, and respect from others. When these needs are satisfied, the person feels self-confident and valuable as a person in the world. When these needs are frustrated, the person feels inferior, weak, helpless and worthless.