nsible for people in a leadership position can manifest power, helping others feel empowered, organizing events, achieving success and even being a well-known speaker. Some negative attributes of power are viciousness, abuse of power such as dictatorship and, inappropriate control and employee manipulation. Violence against fellow employees or employers and even, sexual harassment is an abuse of one’s power and manipulation. Once those esteem needs are met adequately, the self-actualization needs become prominent. Self-actualization is the need to increase one’s potential. Improving one’s self by earning a college education, writing a book or poetry, play the piano and even teach. As Maslow expressed it, “What a man can be, he must be.” Thus, self-actualization is the desire to become what one is capable of becoming. A college education plays a major role in obtaining employment in management occupations for women and men. However, gender differences are evident in the level of education completed. Women managers today are less likely to have bachelor and graduate degrees than male managers are. Because self-actualization is needed based, the way it is expressed can change over time or as ones horizon broadens.As men and women excel beyond the higher growth level of their growth potential, being better at what they do and developing their potential they move through Maslow’s hierarchy of needs to the transcendent level. The transcendent level is the final level of need and, is known as the spiritual level. At this level of need men and women move toward the attainment of a fuller knowledge of one’s nature, and higher level of integration. At the transcendent level of need one has a feeling of overall love, exhibiting the fruits of the spirit and the use of values. There is a greater sense of awareness such as beauty and awe of oneness. This is the level of need where church, helps ...
