In Teilen der Betriebswirtschaftslehre und in der Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie gilt Maslows Bedürfnis- und Motivationstheorie als zumindest im Kern zutreffend und man meint, man könne sie auf das Verhalten von Menschen in der Arbeitswelt übertragen. Maslow selbst war hier kritischer:
“My work on motivations came from the clinic, from a study of neurotic people. The carry-over of this theory to the industrial situation has some support from industrial studies, but certainly I would like to see a lot more studies of this kind before feeling finally convinced that this carry-over from the study of neurosis to the study of labor in factories is legitimate. The same thing is true of my studies of self-actualizating people – there is only this one study of mine available. There were many things wrong with the sampling, so many in fact that it must be considered to be, in the classical sense anyway, a
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