This 7 page paper considers a case study on motivations. The writer looks at the case of a forty year old, high flying executive that has been recently hospitalised and considers what her motivation is and how this may have changed following her hospitalisation. The writer considers the subjects personality type and models such as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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we see her strive to learn, to gain knowledge, and then seek to move away from additional learning in an academic environment and move to a commercial environment. She is
single minded in her desire to succeed and is also an individual who sets her sights on a single target, as such her personality type may be seen as that
of a driver, otherwise recognised by Keirsey and Bates as a NT Prometheus who looking forward but also pragmatic with it (Noring, 1993). She appears to have a programme
of self improvement and be seeking to increase her performance, this may be achieved with constant self criticism and assessment, the reluctance to suffer fools and reluctance to state the
obvious also place her firmly in this category. In looking at this and then considering how this defines her we may argue that
she uses her job as her main motivation in life, allowing herself to be defined by her job. For many cultures work is a defining role, that which marks an
individual as different or the same as other, the way it defines them can sometimes be argued as reflecting the essential self. This is true for Anne. Here we may
also argue that she has climbed up the hierarchy of needs as outlined by Maslow, but in staying at this level of personality type it appears that she make have
settled at a level without further progression. Maslow stated that man started at the bottom and moved up, and sometimes down the
hierarchy. Lower order needs needed to be satisfied before a man could move higher towards the ultimate goal of the highest level; self actualisation. Once a need was satisfied it