OB lecture 11 individual behavior ability anatomy of strengths

Lecture 11
Individual Behavior at Work
Ability and Personality


Assignment 1
Please submit partial work:
1.0 Introduction
2.0 Organizational Structure
Next Thursday
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Individual Behavior at Work
=> Performance at work



MARS Model of Individual Behavior at
Work and Results

Value

Motivation

Situation
Factors

Personality
Ability
Perception

Emotion
Attitudes

Behavior
and Results

Role
Perception

Stress
J.P Champbell and R.D. Pritchchard
Motivation Theory in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology


Motivation
Forces within a person that affect his or her direction,
intensity, and persistent of voluntary behavior
Ability
Thins that a person can do, or is good at ‘strengths’.
Role Perception
The extend a person understand what he or she should do.
Situation Factors
External events or situation support or interferes with task
goal


Tex t book Page 115 - 136
Value
Personality

P.116
Perception
P.122
Emotion
Attitudes
P. 125
Stress
P.130

Motivation
P.125
(Attitude)
Ability
P.127
Role
Perception
P.122

Situation
Factors
Behavior
and Results


Assignment Writing
1. Best if you can interview or person, and
analyze his/her behavior using the
model
or Analyze your own performance at
school this or previous, or work

experience
2.

Or case study


In the following Headings
Motivation
Ability
Personality
Role Perception
Situation Factors
Emotion
Stress


Week 4
1. Ability

2. Personality


A Person’s Ability or
Strengths Consists of - Acquired
An
Anatomy
Knowled
ge

Talent

Ability
Innate

Skills


Innate and Acquired
Innate – Born with it
Talent
Acquired Later
Knowledge
Factual or experiential learning
Skills
Steps of doing some things


Innate and Acquired
We believe that we can train the technical
Skills – that is the easy part. What we can
nottrain is the service orientation. We just
can’t put people in the training program
and say that they are going to come out
smiling if that is not inherent in them
Carolyn Clark
Senior Vice President of Human Resources
Fairmont
Hotel

Talent

Talent is innate, like a person is borne
tall or short


“Synoptic Connection”
Synapse, cells (nerons), networks
100 billion cells
John Bruer’s – The Myth of The First
Three Years
3 years old – forming of network
15 years – erasing of network
Piaget


Knowledge
Factual
Knowledge

Diploma in
management

Knowledge

Experience,
Experiential
Knowledge

Experience in

managing


Kolb’s Learning Cycle

Try

Practice

experiential

Review

Theory

Factual


Skills
Example
Use of Power Point, Excel


Your Talents
Talent is any recurring pattern of
thoughts,
feeling, or behavior that can be
productively
applied.

Indications of Talent
1. Liking, enjoyment
2. Yearning
3. Rapid learning
4. Instantaneous response
It is important to discover one’s strength
at
school or at work.


Indication of a Talent

Liking, enjoyment


Indication of a Talent

Yearning ‘desire’


Indication of a Talent

Rapid Learning


Indication of a Talent

Instantaneous response
‘unprepared response’

How Do You Know Your Strengths ?

Journaling