Distinguish between Values and Skills
VALUES Vs. SKILLS To ‘become’ we need values. To ‘do’ we need skills. ‘Becoming ‘ (needing values) must preceed ‘doing’ (needing skills) in...
VALUES Vs. SKILLS To ‘become’ we need values. To ‘do’ we need skills. ‘Becoming ‘ (needing values) must preceed ‘doing’ (needing skills) in...
Norms refer to group behavior standard, beliefs, attitudes, traditions and expectations shared by group members. According to Michael Argyle, “Group norms are rules or guidelines...
The components of learning process are: drive, cue stimuli, response, reinforcement and retention. Drive Learning frequently occurs in the presence of drive – any strong...
Likert has classified the factors affecting organizational effectiveness into following three variables: Causal Intervening End result Causal Variables Causal variables are those independent...
Locus of control is the degree to which an individual believes that his or her behavior has direct impact on the consequences of that behavior....
The personality formation of an individual starts at birth and continues throughout his life. Three major types of factors play important roles in personality formation,...
Personality is a complex, multi-dimensional construct and there is no simple definition of what personality is. Maddi defines personality as, “A stable set of characteristics...
An operant is defined as a behavior that produces effects. Operant conditioning, basically a product of Skinnerian psychology, suggests that individuals emit responses that are...
The work of the famous Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov demonstrated the classical conditioning process. When Pavlov presented a piece of meat to the dog in...
The relevance of the learning theories for explaining and predicting of organizational behavior is marginal. This does not mean that learning theories are totally irrelevant....