Yes, technology can have an effect on the job security of an employee which inturn can affect the over all performance. 

Evidence suggests there is a relationship between Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs & technology. Review the following:

Technologies both reflect and shape ambient social and cultural circumstances: they are conditioned by existing states of affairs and impelled (or not) by choices made in light of these; once at play, they can exert a powerful influence on future choices. Political economy (in the original sense) is a useful lens through which to examine technology. Another useful framework is that of co-evolution, first articulated by Richard Norgaard. (See, for instance, Norgaard, Richard B. 1994. Development Betrayed: The End of Progress and a Coevolutionary Revisioning of the Future. London and New York. Routledge.) Looking in particular at ecological systems, but with obvious relevance elsewhere, Norgaard posited that development could be understood as a coevolutionary process: specifically, we are to consider a system consisting of five subsystems: values, knowledge, organization, technology, and the environment. It is important to see these five subsystems as interacting with each other directly much like individuals in populations of different species interact with each other in an ecosystem. So, there is indeed every reason to believe that technology has an effect on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, impacting physiological needs, safety needs, love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization (but not necessarily in that order, which opens other avenues for investigation and reflection). Culture Theory, available at http://www.adb.org/publications/culture-theory, may be of interest too.

Technology is having significant impact on Maslow need hierarchy currently.

Starting from basic physiological need, technology is not having impact on this.

But moving ahead, it is playing role like,

Safety in terms of employment and personally. professional network may provide a person professional security.

social need is surely fulfilled by social networking sites and anroid mobile apps.

Esteem needs can be fulfilled by authentic publications and respect. In a way out this association can also be considered to fulfill our esteem need.

Actualization need by having social projects, connecting the global community.

further reference,

https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/addressing-maslows-hierachy-of-needs-with-technology/

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/09/wonderful-chart-integrating-maslow.html

Maslow’s hierarchy as an inflexible structure, with clear boundaries between its levels at times are porous. A caveman probably pursued self-esteem and self-actualization, to some degree, just as we today spend effort seeking to fulfill our physical needs hierarchy as a map of human focus

http://www.roughtype.com/images/hierarchy%20of%20innovation.jpg

Motivation and Technology today are interlinked. It was not linked during the the time of maslow. 

Very interesting question. 

Technology impacts the very first level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. For example, if bore well technology is not there for pumping water in some parts of Asia and Africa, first level of Maslow's needs hierarchy cannot be fulfilled (Physiological Need: Water!).

Obviously the other levels.  

There is link between technology and Maslow's pyramid   of needs in the present era . But the difficulty is capturing the evidence in the  form of variables . Advance Metrics may be able to establish this linkage .

if we look at technology as social phenomenon that enable the human being to adapt with his environment, definitely it will have a remarkable impact on the ability of the person to satisfy his basic and social needs.

The answer should be conceived considering a dynamic framework for both the Maslow's pyramid of needs and for the technology evolution. Needs change in time, and the way we satisfy them using technology also changes in time. May be, we should understand the influence of technology upon the Maslow's pyramid in terms of the way we can satisfy our needs through technology, as it changes continuously. Think for example of the need of communication with other people and how the iPhone chnaged the way we can do it. I think that we should adopt a dynamic and nonlinear framework of this influence in order to approach better to the real life.

The framework has to include how the answer changes from the baby boomers to the millenniums. Many of the technology that we see today were not apart of the baby boomers lives but millenniums have not know a world without technology. The dynamic of the  overall need and want changed. 

Do the answers change? Or are we looking at the means as being more important than the ends (let alone confusing what the ends are)?

Firstly, wants and needs are not the same - while a loaded view look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEJsT_MpLQE (cut and paste url)

Secondly, busyness carries implications - we are losing control and drown in frenetic activity and information - look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TKbIidbyhk

An implication is technology impedes meeting of needs; remember Maslow's hierarchy is a heuristic useful in thinking about needs not a normative description of this need then that need.

The first is based on a world view of needs as being in relationships. Technology is based on isolation masked by a veneer of connections (without relationship). Technology drives the STABO generation (Subject To A Better Offer). A cousin's daughters 21st had 100 acceptances, was catered for and had 75 decline on the day (du to better offers).

STABO is enabled by technology - should the question be "is technology impeding meeting needs using Maslow as a frame to categorise needs?"

Conceptually there needs to be a differentiation between what one needs and what one does/seeks. As per above needs and wants are not perfect synonyms.

Yes, technology has an effect on maslow's hierarchy of need. Can we think of meeting of any need without the use technology. Level of use of technology may change with level of needs.

A goose quill pen is technology – did Maslow reflect inherent needs or merely transient desires? We have always used technology.

The need is different to the manner it is met. The former is the what (need), the latter is the how (use of technology etc).

Conceptualising against this simple typology helps clarify the manner technology aids or hinders meeting of needs. The typology is not real, merely a tool to organise thinking around.

I would like to add the dimension of opportunity divides and the development agenda with its high emphasis on ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development). In this context, Johri and Pal observed that current ICT4D efforts are “primarily framed in the theory and practice of development and empowerment”, signifying “a disproportionate emphasis […] on fulfilling basic needs of users in low-resource environments without adequate attention to user-motivated concerns which would enrich their lives rather than merely provide access and satisfy basic needs.” They propose a framework for designing ICT for human development (ICT4D). The framework aims to overcome this gap and proposes targeting four primary design characteristics: (1) Access to artifacts (accessibility easiness), (2) Ability for self-expression (expressive creativity), (3) Ability to interact and form relationships with other people (relational interactivity), and (4) Opportunity to enrich the environment (ecological reciprocity).

I have incorporated these four characteristics as criteria 1, 3, 5 and 7 in a PKM4D (Personal Knowledge Management for Development) framework with 12 criteria linking each level directly to Maslow's Extended Hierarchy of Needs, using it as a structure for an e-Skills development paper as well as for an article-under-review addressing the novel PKM Systems’s impact on social, cultural, economic, and environmental sustainability.

Article Capable and convivial design (CCD): a framework for designin...

Conference Paper Making Sense of e-Skills at the Dawn of a New Personal Knowl...

Conference Paper From ICT4D to PKM4D: Tackling Opportunity Divides with a 'Ne...

Here is a simple example:

Water pump = technology

Water pump + water well (or hole) = water production

Water production = water consumption

Water consumption = basic need fulfilled

Is this too simple? 

Don't forget that Maslow hierarchy is a model, probably even not the best one, as his contemporary Leon Festinger said of him: "It's so bad that we don't find ever what can be critiziced in it" (Elliot Aronson's Biography).

If the question is made in broader terms, that is, if technology can affect motivation, the answer should be clearly affirmative.

One of the effects of technology is splitting qualifications. Someone can become a technology designer and, if the specific technology is widely adopted, the designer could feel extremely important in the professional field.

By the other side, you find jobs where technology converted professionals that were regarded as highly qualified into "Windows users" that are taught how to use a system but without any knowledge about what is inside it. Look at the video in the link (especially in its minute 7th) and you will find a clear sample of that. Of course, this kind of professional have to feel serious effects in their motivation too but, in this case, in opposite sense.

http://factorhumano.org/2014/03/27/frederick-w-taylor-xxi-century-release/

https://youtu.be/xbecC_ApNY0

Dear Mohammed:

                            As far as I know, Maslow´s model is theoretical, he didn´t make any field studies to prove it. He just made assumptions and put them in his model. That doesn´t mean it´s wrong, rather I would say that it is a kind of proposal. Have also in mind that it belongs to psychology, not to management. Management just took the idea because if was very useful as an explanation of human behaviour.

                            So I guess that probably you can find many leaks in his thinking, or to put it in another way, you will find many things that affect it but you don´t know how. I made during several years in class exercises asking my students how they would put Maslow´s needs in our country (Uruguay), and generally they said that social matters were more basic than Maslow said. That is to say it should be not the third need, but the second. 

Regards

Gustavo Concari  

Clarification of what Maslow created needs to occur – did he create a law as per the sciences which predict behaviour and intent perfectly or taxonomy to assist with thinking? The notion of some needs taking precedence is crucial to management; that at times which ones are treated as being crucial changes is wisdom of experience. One can demonstrate support for the idea of people giving precedence to some needs over others. The idea of creating a hard hierarchy is unachievable; not all people give the same priority all the time.

The idea Maslow is part of psychology not of management is intriguing. People are what management is about; wisdom is understanding people and working with them NOT treating them as objects. People responsible for organisations have a whole business to run, not a this bit then that bit.

I am thinking is the work I do for a particular discipline group, a defined paradigm (as per Kuhn’s original construct) or am I using a range of ideas to help people deal with the world they live in? Who are the beneficiaries from an answer to Mohammed’s question – management academics or people running organisations?

Did the ape use technology when it used a stone as a tool to fulfil its basic needs?

If yes, then the answer to your question would be that without technology, it may be impossible for modern human beings to fulfil their basic needs unless you learn how to hunt with your bare hands again.

Dear Paul:

                 I agree completely that management is about people. What I pretend to say when saying that Maslow ideas belong to psychology is that he did not wrote his ideas for managers, rather I would say managers took them because they find them useful, just that.

Regards

Gustavo Concari

Colleagues,

I am tempted to believe that Maslow 's theory applies to man as he goes through the need ladder. I can picture the ancient man's want for food leading him to find better ways of hunting, fishing and growing food, instead of scanning the forest for it. When he was full then he moved to shelter or clothing and to something else. The improved way in which a need is satisfied is technology, albeit primitive, with hindsight.

But let us look at man today. The telegraph gave way to fixed telephone, then to mobile phones and then to internet. With internet, we are working at yet faster and instant versions. Phones have become mini computers, scanners, location finders, instant postmen for messages and pictures etc. Why?

My idea is that we are only using the need theory of Maslow, beginning somewhere from the top of the scale and extending the scale to levels that Maslow never imagined, using technology. Simply put, technology enables us satisfy the Maslowic needs faster and this enables us to identify newer needs which we focus on. And it shall continue until we all drop off. Technology is the vehicle

Dear Researchers,

 i am applying expectancy theory on employee silence, can anybody help

Yes if we draw a parallel between narcissism and technology mediated self-actualization, currently used to incentivize and "gamify"  online social networking. At the very minimum to collapse the hierarchy into a dichotomy. At its worse, to overthrow the me-you distinction such that more of me, means more of you. In essence Adam Smith's selfishness as the most benevolent virtue. Motivation becomes coevolutionary instead of graduating, individual needs in a hierarchy.

Addressing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs with Technology

1. Technology cannot address nor meet biological and physiological needs.

2.  Safety in the age of the Internet revolves around Online Safety, Digital Citizenship, Privacy, and Cyberbullying Prevention.

3.  One of the biggest benefits of the Internet to this generation of learners is their ability to connect with like-minded individuals . . .  their tribes throughout the globe.

4.  The act of creation has great potential for enhancing one’s esteem. Technology has provided the tools and means for learners to be creators of their own products rather than primarily becoming consumers which is characteristic of 20th century informal and formal learning.   They can and do write via blogging and microblogging, make videos, take and post photos and other forms of digital art, perform and record music, create video games, and learn and share their skills online.

5.  Prior to Web 1.0 and Web 2.o, students were often dependent on educators to be the experts to tell them about and share resources about the content-related topic.  Now the Internet has videos, resources, and research from experts and practitioners who often know more about the content than does the educator.

6. Technology has offered new and unique ways to engage in and meet aesthetic needs.

For more details see link.

7. The Internet and online forums have the potential to help learners become involved in social causes and activism. Online hobnobbing can enable youngsters to discover opportunities for community service and volunteering and can help youth shape their sense of identity.  These tools also can be useful adjuncts to — and in some cases are replacing — traditional learning methods in the classroom.

https://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2014/03/12/addressing-maslows-hierachy-of-needs-with-technology/