Maslow's View of Employee Motivation

question 165

Multiple Choice

Maslow's view of employee motivation:

• A)became the foundation of positive organizational behaviour.
• B)helped employers standardize reward systems.
• C)was that we should focus mostly on need deprivation.
• D)encouraged others to narrowly define needs or drives.
• E)introduced a mechanistic perspective of the workplace in organizational behaviour.

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