Blakely just took a job with higher pay and better job security. She now lives in a nicer apartment and maintains a fairly comfortable lifestyle. However, she is still new at the company and feels like an outsider. She does not feel as though her fellow employees have accepted her into their group yet. According to Maslow's theory, Blakely is driven by a desire to satisfy her social needs.

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Maslow classified the need to feel accepted and part of a group as a social need. He felt that people who have met their physiological and safety needs, as Blakely apparently has done, would be motivated by the desire to meet social needs.

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