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Luke Jennings

Jim Gavin appears on Leaving Cert higher level Business exam

Former Dublin manager Jim Gavin was included in the Leaving Cert higher level Business paper this year in question 5 (Part 2 - Enterprise).

“Jim Gavin, Director of People and Operations in the Irish Aviation Authority, is a speaker on leadership and motivation. He references motivational theorists such as Douglas McGregor and Abraham Maslov.”

The following queries concern those theories. The "hierarchy of needs" was created in the context of human motivation by American psychologist Maslov.

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The "Theory X" and "Theory Y" analyses of what drives various employees in an organisation were created by McGregor.

Maslov, whose now-80-year-old paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" introduced the hierarchy of needs, was more closely linked to Gavin's sporting career because of the line "What a man can be, he must be."

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