Management Psychology

Abraham Maslow is known as the father of Modern Management Psychology.  He believed that all humans strive for basic needs within a hierarchy of needs before they could reach their full potential.  By meeting some basic safety and health needs, then developing associations with others, and finally achieving self-esteem, that these levels of satisfaction and competency would catapault us to our highest potential.  He refers to the ultimate level of satisfaction and competency as when one has become self-actualized.

Maslow’s list of characteristics of the self-actualized individual include:

1. Realistic


2. Acceptance (e.g. of yourself, others and nature)


3. Spontaneity; simplicity; naturalness


4. Problem centering [e.g. not egotistical, able to use rationality and fairness]


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“What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?” – Abraham Maslow

How to use psychology at work?

Education:
Industrial/Organizational Psychology Master of Arts Degree and Human Resource Management Joint MBA Degree – Fairleigh Dickinson University (FDU)


This joint degree program offers cross-cutting themes in course work, including the globalization of the marketplace, ethical considerations and human resources' role in responding to changing technologies and demographics. - (FDU)

Industrial-Organizational Psychologists* Rate the Most Important Activities for their practices:

90.7% Consulting and Advising Clients
83% Building Relationships
69% Implementing and Delivering Programs
63% Making Presentations

(*Full Time I/O Psychologists; Reference Practioners Needs Survey, 2008, Society For Industrial Organizational Psychology website).

American Psychological Association (APA) - Workplace Issues

Corporate Psychology and Management Consulting – Sperduto & Associates: services  

“Study after study has shown that employee's job satisfaction has at least as much to do with their job responsibilities, duties, and challenges, and with their working conditions, as it does with their monetary compensation. (It remains to be seen whether the ridiculously overpaid CEOs would perform just as well if their earnings were cut to reasonable levels.)” – Corporate Psychology Network

Motivational Psychology

Self-Actualization Resource Center