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The Primacy of Social Needs

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Employee Motivation in Saudi Arabia

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This chapter empirically probes the universal applicability of the Hierarchy of Needs theory in Saudi context and with specific reference to issues of gender and religion. It was found that, apart from the security need, the Saudi employees prefer to order their needs through a very different hierarchy and place the highest emphasis on social needs.

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  1. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Rodwan Hashim Mohammed Fallatah

  2. Suleman Dawood School of Business, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

    Jawad Syed

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Fallatah, R.H.M., Syed, J. (2018). The Primacy of Social Needs. In: Employee Motivation in Saudi Arabia. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67741-5_7

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