Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Hierarchy of food needs.

How would it look to apply the principles of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to food management? Why even wrestle with such a conundrum? The Satter Eating Competence Model (ecSatter) stresses joining with individuals right where they are and working within their constraints and circumstances. Rather than emphasizing food selection and portion sizes, ecSatter operationalizes the Dietary Guidelines b...

Systemic capacity building: a hierarchy of needs.

'Capacity building' is the objective of many development programmes and a component of most others. However, satisfactory definitions continue to elude us, and it is widely suspected of being too broad a concept to be useful. Too often it becomes merely a euphemism referring to little more than training. This paper argues that it is more important to address systemic capacity building, identify...

Harris Hierarchy of Software Development Support Needs

This paper describes the authors’ hypothesis that software development organizations operate at different levels in a hierarchy of needs modeled on the Maslow Hierarchy of needs. The Harris Hierarchy of Software Development Needs has four levels representing operating states of the software development organization: Failure, Fear of Failure, Control and Value. The paper describes how the new mo...

Determining the Research Needs of Social Insurer: Using Analytical Hierarchy ‎Process (AHP)‎

Introduction: Research conducted without any need assessment not only helps solve problems but ‎also increase the current problems and result in waste of limited resources.  ‎ Objective: The aim of this research was to determine the research needs of a social insurer ‎organization based on their managers' attitude.‎ Methods: This is a mixed and cross-sectional study that...