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Eupsychian Management
Maslow's name for the organization of work in ways that facilitate self-actualization rather than merely extract productivity — the managerial philosophy adequate to the AI workplace.
Maslow coined Eupsychian from Greek roots meaning 'good soul' or 'good mind,' and applied it to organizations designed to enable human flourishing rather than merely to maximize output. His 1965 book Eupsychian Management — essentially a summer's notebook from an observational study at a California electronics firm — sketched a management philosophy built on the assumption that most workers, given adequate conditions, prefer meaningful work to meaningless, self-directed responsibility to passive compliance, and growth to stagnation. The AI workplace, the simulation argues, presents the greatest opportunity and the greatest test for Eupsychian principles in the sixty years since Maslow wrote.
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Maslow's managerial thinking emerged from dissatisfaction with the assumptions behind Taylorism and its mid-century successors. Scientific management treated workers as interchangeable executors and measured success in output per hour. Maslow, having studied what self-actualizing people reported about their work, suspected that most human productivity systems systematically under-used the people inside them — not for lack of talent but for lack