Human Resource Management at Le Taxi du Lac

The basic system of motivation applied in Le Taxi du Lac is behaviorallybased. Essentially, the system is an amalgamation of the principles espoused by Abraham Maslow and Frederick Herzberg with respect to motivation within organizational settings.

Maslow's motivation theory was his hierarchy of needs (Maslow, 1954, pp. 97101). The hierarchy divides human needs into higher and lower orders. The lower order needs are primary, such as food, shelter, sex, and physical security, while the higher order needs involve love for other and selfactualization. When the lower order needs are absent in the life of an individual, the satisfaction of those needs become the center of the individual's life. In most modern societies, however, the primary needs are satisfied. Thus, real motivationespecially within organizational structuresresults from individual desires to satisfy their higher order needs (Maslow, 1968, p. 189).

Frederick Herzberg (1966, p. 169) developed a theory of motivationthe twofactor modelwhich is often confused with Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The twofactor model divid

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ty and health concerns also provide a motivation for labor union membership. Occupational safety and health has been a major issue in industrial economies, almost since their inception. Business management in industrial societies have, for the most part, traditionally resisted the introduction of improved safety and health conditions for employeesusually on the grounds that such introductions are not economically feasible. In Western European freemarket economies, most safety and health improvements have resulted from the collective bargaining process. At Le Taxi du Lac, the company performs safety inspections on all vehiclescompanyowned and driverowned. Faulty vehicles must be repaired before operation is permitted. Driver safety training is also mandated and provided by Le Taxi du Lac for all of its drivers. Employee Labor Relations Concepts of management rights, workers rights, workers control, and so forth have characterized labormanagement negotiating strategies through the 1980s, and, in some instances, continue to characterize such strategies (Walters and Langdon, 1992, pp. 579587). The contention in the early1990s is, however, that a new approach to labormanag
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