for self-actualization. Maslow once said, What a person can be, he must be(Goble, 1970, p.41). The armys slogan, Be all that you can be, is a good way to describe self-actualization. According to Wilson it is hard to measure if someone has self-actualized. It may take a person a lifetime to reach this maximum point. Other stints of self-actualization may occur in peak experiences, or self-actualized moments, that people have (1972, p.1999). Self-actualization can be seen in the business sense of a person finding their calling, the job someone was meant to do (Maslows, 2000). Many people believe that there is a set path for how their life is going to be, people also believe that there is a specific purpose for everything in life. This would include career. When someone is in a job for their entire life they want to make it something worth while. No one wants to do something that they do not like for their entire life. They do not want to do something useless or without meaning either. According to Katherine Miller managers need to allow employees to exercise their creative needs to fill the need for self-actualization (1999, p.31). Maslow also studied other human needs after he released his hierarchy of needs. These include the desire to know and understand, aesthetic needs (the need for beauty), and growth needs (Goble, 1970, p.41-43). These needs could possibly though be put under the need for self-actualization. This all depends on a persons point of view, and their priority list. These last needs though would not have as much influence on people as the above five. This influence would not have an effect on the work habits of people at their job.The Western Electric Companies Hawthorne plant did studies on workers and their response to stimuli (Miller, 1999, 27). These studies are known as the Hawthorne studies and are the basis for the entire Human Relations approach to management in organizational communications....
