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Employee Engagement: Meeting Their Needs

KnowledgeCity

When a company is able to inspire its employees to adopt its goals through engagement, the company will see the benefits in productivity. If you could ask noted psychologist, Abraham Maslow, he might tell you to meet their hierarchy of needs. Who is Maslow and what is his Hierarchy of Needs? Life is unpredictable.

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Who's in charge?

Learning with e's

This is number 35 in my ongoing series on learning theories. In this series I have been providing a brief overview of each theory, and how each can be applied in education. In this post, I present a brief overview of Julian Rotter's locus of control theory. The theory explains social dimensions of personality.

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Why we must deliberately embed curiosity instead of conformity

CLO Magazine

Maslow proposed that though we crave stability, we also paradoxically yearn for disruption (via growth). In his 1968 book, “Toward a psychology of being,” Maslow argued that this drive for growth constitutes a fundamental psychological need and satisfying it makes us wiser, stronger, more evolved and more mature.

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