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4. Questioning the Applicability of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in Saudi Arabia

Authors : Rodwan Hashim Mohammed Fallatah, Jawad Syed

Published in: Employee Motivation in Saudi Arabia

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter explains the empirical research undertaken to understand, explore and explain motivational needs of employees in higher education sector in Saudi Arabia, mainly from the perspective of employees (both academic and administrative staff) in the higher education sector, and with a focus on devout religious and moderately religious organisations. It also discusses the philosophical issues and paradigms underpinning social science research on motivation. It then explains and justifies the methods relating to the data sources, sampling, data collection and analysis, used in this research. The study included 230 (78% of total sample) male participants (148 from SUR and 82 from SUM). There were 64 (22%) female participants, all of them from SUM as SUR is a strictly male-only university due to gender segregation.

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Title: Questioning the Applicability of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in Saudi Arabia
Authors: Rodwan Hashim Mohammed Fallatah
Jawad Syed
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Employee Motivation in Saudi Arabia
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-67740-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-67741-5

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67741-5_4