A Interview With My Director We Discussed Mcclellands...

During my interview with my director we discussed McClelland’s Three-Needs Theory. This theory asserts that employees acquire one or more of three types of â€Å"needs† that motivate them to excel at work—the need for achievement (â€Å"nAch†), the need for power (â€Å"nPow†), and the need for affiliation (â€Å"nAff†). He we asked how these needs have impacted him throughout his career with managing employees, managing managers, and how these needs have changed in himself throughout his own career. One thing that surprised me the most in the interview is when we discussed his needs throughout his career and how they fit into this theory. In our course module it is said that it is understood that the best managers tend to be higher nPow and lower nAff, as†¦show more content†¦This was a significant pay cut from this previous job and gave him much less power than he would have had as a vice president, but as he expressed to me he has a much higher nAff and nAch than nPow. With this role he took on he could be a part of the team and be available to all of us. Building a successful department and being our leader gives him that ability to meet his nAff needs by being more involved with the day to day actions and his nAch needs are met by building the most successful department in the organization. He states that his current day needs match the needs he had as a young employee long ago. Similarly according to Seiver and Troja (2014) two studies were conducted to examine the relationship between motivational variables and satisfaction and success in online learning. College students enrolled in face-to-face psychology classes and who had taken at least one online course were surveyed. In study number 2, two hypotheses were tested: Students high in need for mastery would be more satisfied with online learning and more successful in school. Neither of these hypotheses was supported. The results from these two studie s suggest that the need for affiliation may play a significant role in a student’s satisfaction with their