Indian Three Needs Theory of Motivation from Panchatantra

It is an employee’s willingness to work and the desire that constantly improves his performance. When people join an organization, they bring with them certain drives and needs that affect their on-the-job performance. Several approaches to understanding internal drives and needs of the employees are available in the literature. Of them Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory of motivation was the pioneering work. This paper attempts to highlight the Indian management thought similar and related to the views of Maslow’s theory of motivation and proposes an Indian theory of motivation from Panchatantra, an Indian classical work on Management more than 5000 years ago but consistent with the modern theories and very relevant even today!