Maslow, Herzberg and Taylor

The three great inventors of business theories are Maslow, Herzberg and Taylor. Each of them have their very own objectives, achievements and motives for their business theories.

Abraham Maslow:
Human needs can be arranged in a hierarchy or scale. At the bottom, corresponding to the needs that are most urgent early in life and continue to be urgent when they are not satisfied up to a certain point, are certain basic needs. These relate directly to biological survival such as needs for food, clothing, and shelter, and, at the next level, security.
What Maslow calls basic needs are probably the most and "self-evident" of human needs.

Frederick Herzberg:

People are made dissatisfied by bad environment, but they are seldom made satisfied by a good environment. The prevention of dissatisfaction is just as important as encouragement of motivator satisfaction. Hygiene factors operate independently of motivation factors. An individual can be highly motivated in his work and be dissatisfied with his work environment. All hygiene factors are equally important, although their frequency of occurrence differs considerably. Hygiene improvements have short-term effects. Any improvements result in a short-term removal of, or prevention of, dissatisfaction. Hygiene needs are cyclical in nature and come back to a starting point.

Frederick Taylor:

Taylor's principles became widely practised  and the resulting cooperation between workers and managers eventually developed into the teamwork we enjoy today. While Taylorism in a pure sense isn't practised much today, scientific management did provide many significant contributions to the advancement of management practice. It introduced systematic selection and training procedures, it provided a way to study workplace efficiency, and it encouraged the idea of systematic organizational design.

1. Replace working by "rule of thumb", or simple habit and common sense, and instead use the scientific method of study work and determine the most efficient way to perform specific tasks.
2. Rather than simply assign workers to just any job,  match workers to their jobs based on capability and motivation, and train them to wok at maximum efficiency.
3. Monitor worker performance, and provide instructions and supervision to ensure that they're using the most efficient ways of working.
4. Allocate the work between managers and workers so that the managers spend their time planning and training, allowing the workers to perform their tasks efficiently.

Which theory is suitable for Bill Gates?

Bill Gates is suitable for Herzberg theory. Bill Gates does not like to live in a bad environment and he does not like his company to be in a bad condition. Gate's wants to motivate his employees no matter what to make them the best so that the company will not fail easily and employees with higher motivations could use the skills to teach new employees or to create a new and better skills for the company.

References :

Businessballs.com. 2013. Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and diagrams of Maslow's motivational theory - pyramid diagrams of Maslow's theory. [online] Available at: http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm [Accessed: 4 Oct 2013].

Mindtools.com. 2013. Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management - Management Training from MindTools.com. [online] Available at: http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMM_Taylor.htm [Accessed: 4 Oct 2013].