Need for achievement

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Need for achievement is a person's desire for significant accomplishment, mastery of skills, control, or high standards. The psychometric device designed to measure need-for-achievement, N-Ach, was popularized by the psychologist David McClelland.^{[1][non-primary source needed]} A need for achievement figures as a secondary or psychogenic need in Henry Murray's system of needs.^[2]