A Comparative Analysis of the Psychological Concepts Created by Abraham Maslow & Fredrick Herzberg: In Context of the Organizational Study

Abstract

To have an academic dialogue about the workplace motivation, has always been a magnetic topic for the scholars of human resource management. In order to have a holistic understanding about the motivation one should know the relationship between human body, brain and mind. Different philosophers have given their views about motivation. In this research we have tried to analyse the two theories, theory of hierarchy of needs and two-factor theory given by Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg respectively. We have produced a detailed introduction of both the philosophers. This will help us to understand the influence of their life over their work. The comparison between two theories is based on the similarities and differences. Maslow’s work is purely psychological and based on the clinical experiments. Herzberg work is about the mental health of the industrial workers. This research paper is conceptual in nature.