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This essay considers Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in connection with an elementary school teacher in New Jersey assessing whether individuals in the teacher’s work setting possess different attributes or needs that would change how they are motivated. The starting point for this is to understand Arthur Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow lists five categories of needs in order of their assumed priority: 1. physical (biological) needs – air, water, food and the like 2. safety needs – assurance of survival and of continuing satisfaction of basic needs 3. affection or belongingness needs 4. esteem needs – by self and others 5. self-actualization or self-development needs Maslow did not say that these are all the needs we all have, but that all people potentially have all these needs. He regarded this hierarchy as instinctual and universal. Thus ‘higherâ