Need satisfaction $($Connect$)$

In order to better understand what motivates employees, the basic model of work motivation and performance can be expanded to include the concept of needs. It is then the manager's task to identify employees' needs.

Needs are,physical and psychological requirements that are necessary to ensure survival and well$-$being. An unsatisfied need that motivates a person to action.

Abraham Maslow, Clayton Alderfer, and David McClelland have each presented a well$-$known theory regarding the number and types of needs categories. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory presents five categories of needs, whereas Alderfer's ERG Theory collapses Maslow's categories into three.

Provide the missing category labels from Maslow's theory for the following work scenarios, and answer the related question on Alderfer's theory.

Work Example Need Category

Working in a comfortable environment with enough heat and air

Feeling a sense of job security and having health benefits

Being offered training to develop your job skills

Alderfer's ERG Theory

Alderfer combined the needs for working in a comfortable environment and feeling a sense of job security into the category of needs. needs.

McClelland's Learned Needs Theory argues for a slightly different set of needs that motivate people: affiliation, achievement, and the need for power.