Personal fulfillment and career satisfaction
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and Frederick Herzberg’s Motivational Maintenance Model offer a key insight about career satisfaction.
Both theories contend that higher needs come into focus only after the lower needs have been met and that the journey of personal fulfillment increases in importance as one achieves greater levels of success.
For example, a starving man is so fixated on food that safety and security aren’t important to him. In the same way, many people become so preoccupied with salary, benefits or other factors when selecting a career that they fail to consider whether the work will ever satisfy higher needs.
Work that is not inspiring to a person will never satisfy him or her. New complaints will be constant because the person’s ladder is against the wrong wall.
The lesson: a sustainable and advancing career path ultimately comes down to whether an individual is happy with the work in and of itself.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy |
Herzberg’s Motivational Maintenance
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Self actualization and fulfillment
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Fulfillment of the work itself
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Esteem and status
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Advancement, recognition,
and status |
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Belonging and social activity
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Supervision and relationships
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Safety and security
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Company policy, job security,
and working conditions |
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Physiological needs
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Salary and personal life
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June 8th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
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