Nowadays it is not disputed that the success of organizations significantly depends on their human resource competencies and motivation to achieve organizational goals. Therefore, it is not yet considered how to ensure employee motivation in organizations: it depends on job satisfaction or satisfaction of needs? Management literature in this area suggests that the exploration of human needs could contribute to solving of problems associated with people, and especially with young people, expectations in the labour market and their motivation to work. Thus, such studies may be useful in trying to understand and prevent the emigration of the youth and brain drain – these problems are among the most important in Lithuanian labour market. However, there still exists a theoretical, as well as, practical problem, in discussion which of the needs have the biggest influence on the young people’s decisions in the labour market, what they expect in organizations. Therefore, the object of the research, presented in this article, is expectations of young people, potential labour market participants, in Lithuania. The aim of the research is to identify the needs and factors that influence young people, the potential labour market participants, in Lithuania. To achieve this aim the following objectives have been formulated: 1) to justify the main theoretical provisions and research methodology; 2) to identify expectations of young people in Lithuanian labour market through their needs and factors that have influence on them; 3) to rank these needs in order of importance, according to sex, education and work experience features. The research is based on the fundamental provisions of A. Maslow theory, because it suggests the most valuable information on the human needs groups and gives ideas how to determine their significance. [...]