Journal:Tiltai
Volume 87, Issue 2 (2021): Volume 87, pp. 39–52
Abstract
The article analyses the satisfaction of employee needs in Lithuanian organisations, according to
A. Maslow’s theory of needs hierarchy. Motivation plays an important role in making people successful and happy in both their daily and their work life. Everyone looks for all possible ways to meet their needs in the organisation they work for, and doing so tends to change from a less satisfactory condition to a better one. The theory of the hierarchy of needs has been widely accepted, and has been particularly supported by many managers, largely because it is logical and simple, and therefore easy to understand. This theory explains what motivates people to work, and has shown managers that work motives are determined by a wide range of needs. According to the study, the results in Lithuanian organisations are in line with Maslow’s theory of the hierarchy of needs, which states that the needs of the last level of the hierarchy of needs must be met first, in order to create the conditions for the next.
Journal:Acta Historica Universitatis Klaipedensis
Volume 13 (2006): Studia Anthropologica, II: Defining Region: Socio-cultural Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Part 2, pp. 71–80
Abstract
The aim of this article is to deconstruct the notions of blood and blood-kinship or Lithuanian descent, as it is understood in state institutions that apply the Lithuanian Law on Citizenship in practice. In particular the article will discuss how the state classifies people, how it fixes or destroys its relations towards different ethnic groups, and what ideas and criteria are employed in fixing this relationship. The starting point of this study is the Law on Citizenship, which creates or destroys the relationship of the state toward individuals and communities. I will not only deal with the textual representations of the Law on Citizenship, but will also take a look at the discussions in the Seimas (Parliament) of Lithuania while the Law of Citizenship has been processed and will present the opinions of politicians who were active in passing it. I will also try to show the instrumentality of the ideas around the notion of descent which in my point is more cultural rather than biological.