I Am Fascinated By Human Behavior

@whowasthatmaskedman Cornerstone? He's highly criticized.

@MethDozer Interesting. Not by anyone I know. The hierarchy of needs works from the bottom up and starts with the animal we evolved from. While you may have trouble with the fine print of the ethics, I cant see why it would be disputed in an operating setting.

@whowasthatmaskedman His work is highly criticized and taken with a grain of salt in academic circles. From.not being scientific about it, too excluding researching anyone he didn't see as a perfect person, to ignoring cultural influences.
His work and conclusions aren't widely accepted or taken very seriously.There are piles of criticisms form the psychology and scientific community calling him faulty. TONS

Even he himself said the hierarchy is concrete. That he noticed much deviation and that it is fluid and not meant to be taken as vertical as it comes across. That people can be working on multiple aspects in different levels at the same time . Also that the needs can switch hierarchies in an individual. He merely meant it as a guideline. Not a rule.

@whowasthatmaskedman Nor did Maslow ever put them in a pyramid or anything like that.


https://www.td.org/insights/maslows-hierarchy-separating-fact-from-fiction

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/positively-media/201111/social-networks-what-maslow-misses-0

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forgiving-life/201805/why-maslows-self-actualization-theory-is-not-quite-right


His work is mostly seen as motivational woo these days with little to nothing to back it up.

@MethDozer Granted, anything to do with human psychology has to be looked at as an aggregate of population and does not apply to individuals so strongly. Individual vary for any number of reasons. But when designing a workplace or workflow system the "average " person has to be catered for.

@whowasthatmaskedman Lokw I said, motivational woo. Jerk off fluff corporate suites latch onto and annoy the piss out out of employees making them waste their time listening to at seminars. The crap to motivate workers but just makes them resentful for being talked to like idiots.

@whowasthatmaskedman Like that sixsigma shit.

@MethDozer Okay. There you are only a couple of steps from Tony Robbins and Ted Talks.🤔

@whowasthatmaskedman Exactly

@MethDozer I couldnt agree more. True motivation is not delivered or spoon fed. It is built into the building, hierarchy or workflow compensation offerings. So a person wants to be there wants to achieve and feels rewarded and appreciated. This leads to lower staff turnover and lower training costs.

@whowasthatmaskedman True motivation comes from fair pay and respectable work conditions. Oh and fear of being broke.

@MethDozer Which is why I threw in Herzberg.

@whowasthatmaskedman Yeah,what a genius for pointing out the obvious and what every dumb ads ever already knew. I wish I could become famous so easily and for so little.

@MethDozer Now you are talking about Peter Senge.

@whowasthatmaskedman we will be here forever if we name every clown in psychology. We have to name every single one really.

@MethDozer True. Thats the thing about business related psychology subjects. Every used cars salesman sees a way to make a buck running others ideas through a blender. The same goes with get rich books.

@whowasthatmaskedman It's a bunch of nonsense. Only the disconnected robots at the top buy into the woo.

@MethDozer Those people at the top try to create a corporate "culture" without realising they already have an organically developed on in place. And it probably looks nothing like they want it to.

@whowasthatmaskedman They fail to realize "corporate culture" is a cancer by default. They should abandon it and try to start acting human again. Try human culture.

@MethDozer We agree. I would simply phrase it a little differently by saying that the corporate culture should be the aggregate of the human cultures of the staff.

@whowasthatmaskedman No more motivation meetings, sensitivity training, or group cheers. It makes workers hate you and the job and rightfully so.