Contrast Paul Lawrence's Human Needs Classification with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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The Answer is Paul Lawrence suggests that people are driven by four primary, subconscious drives, including the drive to acquire, defend, bond, and learn. He placed great emphasis on a need to balance these drives appropriately, and argued that effective managers would find a way to balance these needs in their employees. Maslow, by contrast, developed a hierarchy of needs. His needs were not to be balanced but needed to be satisfied in a specific order, beginning with lower-level needs that were primarily physiological and culminating in self-actualization needs such as personal achievement and meaning. Like Lawrence's needs, managers must find a way to provide for their employees' needs in this hierarchy, but instead of balancing all at once, a manager cannot provide high-level, self-actualization needs without first satisfying low-level needs and then mid-level needs.

Contrast Paul Lawrence's Human Needs Classification with Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

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