Year 12 IB Extended Essays 2018

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But are many negative impacts working long hours. Investing the majority of one’s time working also means sacrificing time for other priorities. Abraham Maslow explains this quite well. The general needs are listed in Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy 20 .

Fig. 4 Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Image Source: https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html

Employees begin to feel less enthusiastic since they’re unable to dedicate their time amongst other values. As mentioned earlier, unmotivated and undervalued employees reflect a high labour-turnover rate within a corporation.

20 Loykie Lominé, Martin Mwenda Muchena and Robert A Pierce, Business Management , 1st ed. repr., Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2014.