Principle of Management Week 6 Assignment
Loan Ly
Professor Baker
DeVry University
10/7/2014

1. According to Maslow's hierarchy, which basic needs does the Patagonia culture meet? What would it be like to work at Patagonia? (Hint: Go to Patagonia’s website and find the section on jobs.) What’s your assessment of the company’s work environment? (20 points)
1. The five level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Physiological Needs
These include the most basic needs that are vital to survival, such as the need for water, air, food, and sleep. Maslow believed that these needs are the most basic and instinctive needs in the hierarchy because all needs become secondary until these physiological needs are met.
(20 points)
The expectancy theory states that employee’s motivation is an outcome of how much an individual wants a reward, the assessment that the likelihood that the effort will lead to expected performance and the belief that the performance will lead to reward. Underpaid it means you have pay less than what you have effort; this is not meet the expectation of the workers. The disappointment might affect their performance at work or might bring up a bad thought at workplace, such as waste resource, and not work well at their position. Under expectation might lead them to compare themselves with their peers, this is the human nature forms of basis equity theory of motivation. People always measure the sense of fairness, they use to wondering why they always get pay less than other that might have the worse performance comparing to them. Wage increasing is the best and the only solution to motivate their employees. All the jobs have to pay fairly so that the employees do not feel a section is being favored. Manager level must research what other organizations that are competing in the same labor market are paying their employees. Because of this unfair labor wage therefore all states have set their own minimum wage and ask for all employers have to obey the law.

3. What do you think might be Patagonia’s biggest challenge in keeping employees motivated? If you were managing a team of Patagonia