The pyramid of desires

Humans according to me have a basic desire pyramid.

First, have enough monetary income to support self and family.
Second, have income enough for luxury like big house, luxury car etc
Third, gain financial independence
Fourth, have responsible work and job
Fifth, have name and respect in society
Sixth, be a mentor
Seventh, gain immortality

All the seven above are in increasing importance as we move up the base from first level.
This pyramid quite often and very obviously defines the way that we behave and deal in our day to day life.

There are many a people who know and think about these. These are mostly the college graduates or learned people who have had the time and the privilege to think about their life and their aims in general. Such people are usually in the early part of their job career or late part of their business career when they realize about the above given pyramid.
An understanding of such needs on the part of your employee is among the first and the foremost requirement on the part of a company’s HR department. It becomes very easy to motivate people and keep them at efficient performing levels if you know what they would really desire for at the certain grid in their jobs. Just satisfy their needs and make sure you have good employees stay put with you for longest possible time.

At the same time tough there are many a people who would never really know what they want from life. Such people only know to cry. Just like an infant these people will only always cry and it is for you, the parent, to decide whether they are hungry or there nappy needs to changed or if they are ill. But even in such cases I have seen and realized that the above pyramid does work and if you happen to give a higher grid object to a person who is still at the lower level, he will feel happy and satisfied with it. For example: In the construction business that my brother has, there are supervisors. These people are responsible to take work from the labor put up in the sites and make sure they perform tasks within given time and at satisfactory quality levels. These supervisors are usually paid just about 6-8k rupees, a figure way less compared to , 15-25k, what a fresher software engineer straight out of college gets in India. Still the supervisor will have a whole lot more self-esteem and sense of purpose, because of the responsibility he has at hand and because he gets to play mentor to all the laborers at the site.

Above is a very commonly seen and yet highly ignored scene at our work places. I have myself worked in job for good two years and never seen the HR at my organization or any other organization in the vicinity (there were more than 500 medium and big sized organizations in that IT park) to actually think and act this way with their employees.