Question

Which cultures would be more likely to focus on external controls? Which cultures would consider direct control to be more important than indirect controls? Do people throughout the world have needs similar to those described in Maslow’s needs Hierarchy? What does your answer reveal about using universal assumptions regarding motivation?

Answer 1

Answer: External control is an action taken by an outside party that impacts the governance of a business.

it includes environment, rules and regulations etc. all these cultures are needed to be focused , all are equally important."culture " plugs a gap in the managerial controls . No organization can rely on external controls because not all human activities can be controlled in this way and because external control generate their own dysfunctions.

Answer: Do people throughout the world have needs similar to those described in Maslow's needs Hierarchy?

-This statement is correct.

Maslow's gave 5 needs of hierarchy which are as follows:

1.Physiological needs: basic needs like ( air, water, shelter, food,clothing, sleep etc.)

2. Safety needs: Includes( personal security, resources, health and property.)

3. Love and Belonging: Like, (family, friends, affection sense of connection.

4. Esteem needs: Everyone wants( respect, power,strength, freedom and status.)

5. Self-actualization needs: ( desire to become the most that one can be.)

-As we can know about all these 5 needs. Every people throughout the world have same needs whether they are the people of INDIA, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA and so on. All have similar needs, everyone want basic needs to live in society like food to eat, shelter to live, cloth to wear.

-Everyone want safety and security for their families, it means when they are not with them their members , family should safe. They also want resources so that they can utilise them for their earning and livelihood.

-Their is no one in the world who doesn't want respect, love , affection from others, every person wants that the society in which he/she lives should respect them, give love and feels them a part of their society.

-Today, everyone want to be superior than others, it is a natural thing that happens in people. If you are in a office and you are at junior level and you have to follow the instruction of your bose , then definitely you also want to be like your bose, i.e you also wants to enjoy superiorness. The freedom to do anything that you want to do. The power to take decisions in your life.

-And the last need that is self- actualization. everyone have some goals in their life( like some people wants to become a teacher then he/she works on it, some wants to be an scientist and many more.) Simply it means if people doesn't have goals they are not able to live properly. If we know that where we want to go in my life only then he/she works hard to acheieve it.

So. we can say that people throughout the world have similar needs which are described in Maslow;s need Hierarchy.

-Haire study reveals that all needs important to respondents across cultures.

-International managers indicated upper-level needs of particular importance to them.

Nutshell is all needs are important ,but it varies from people to people.

- Universal Assumption regarding Motivation:

1. Motivation process is universal; all people are motivated to pursue goals they value.

2.But, culture influences specific contents and goals pursued.

3. So, the specific nature of motivation differ across cultures.

4. The motivational process may be the same , but the specific needs and goals can be different between two cultures.

5.The ways in which individuals in emerging and changing nations are motivated will change.