Maslow on Management
1965 book by Abraham Maslow
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Maslow on Management (originally Eupsychian Management: A Journal) is a work on industrial psychology by Abraham Maslow, first published in 1965. Maslow's work is frequently invoked in attempts to explain and predict work behavior.[1] In his work Maslow advocated the eupsychian (meaning moving towards psychological health or self-actualization)[2] management as the ideal model for industrial organizations.[3] Maslow took a keen interest in the application of humanistic psychology beyond one-on-one therapy to larger endeavors in organizations and education settings, where greater numbers of people could be positively affected.[4]
First edition (with original title) | |
| Author | Abraham Maslow |
|---|---|
| Original title | Eupsychian Management: A Journal |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Psychology |
| Publisher | R. D. Irwin (1965) |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 277 |
The idea for Eupsychian Management originated with a journal of Maslow's impressions of his 1962 observations of a California electronics plant. The study resulted in Maslow conceiving a theoretical framework on which research in the area of self-actualization may be applied to industrial organizations.[5] Not wanting to use the word "utopian", Maslow coined the term "eupsychian" to describe human-oriented institutions generated by self-actualized people. He said it could also be used to mean "moving toward psychological health".[6]
Maslow noted the commitment to work in self-actualizing people's lives: "These highly evolved individuals assimilate their work into the identity, into the self, ie, work actually becomes part of the self, part of the individual's definition of himself."[7] These most highly evolved persons would actually assimilate work as part of their personal identity.[8]
Maslow's industrial motivation theory has been criticized for tending to emphasize only identification of second-level outcomes.[9]
Maslow's writings on management
Maslow wrote extensively concerning the application of humanistic psychology to management. Relevant publications include:
- Maslow, Abraham H. Eupsychian management. Homewood, IL: Irwin, 1965 (reprinted as Maslow on management, Wiley, 1998).
- Maslow, Abraham H. The Maslow business reader. Wiley, 2000.
- Maslow, Abraham H. Theory Z. Journal of Transpersonal Psychology, 1969, 1(2), 31–47. Reprinted in Maslow business reader (pp. 171−184) and A. H. Maslow, The farther reaches of human nature, New York, 1971 (pp. 270–286).