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Nature and Process

The document discusses several topics related to organizations and human behavior, including: 1. The nature and elements of organizational culture, including observed behaviors, norms, values, rules, and climate. 2. Characteristics of a learning organization, such as having tension that drives questioning and reflection, systems thinking, and a culture that facilitates learning. 3. Key aspects of human personality and cognition, including the core personality traits of conscientiousness, emotional stability, agreeableness, extraversion, and openness to experience. Cognitive processes like learning, attitudes, perception, and attribution are also examined.

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Nature and Process

The document discusses several topics related to organizations and human behavior, including: 1. The nature and elements of organizational culture, including observed behaviors, norms, values, rules, and climate. 2. Characteristics of a learning organization, such as having tension that drives questioning and reflection, systems thinking, and a culture that facilitates learning. 3. Key aspects of human personality and cognition, including the core personality traits of conscientiousness, emotional stability, agreeableness, extraversion, and openness to experience. Cognitive processes like learning, attitudes, perception, and attribution are also examined.

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Nature of Organization

• Techno social systems that are


deliberately created.
• Open systems characterized by –
- Interdependent subsystems.
- Dynamic Homeostasis.
- Negative Entropy.
- Equifinality.
Elements of Organizational
culture
• Observed behavioural regularities.
• Norms.
• Dominant values
• Philosophy.
• Rules.
• Organizational Climate.
Characteristics of Learning
Organization
• Presence of Tension
- Gap between vision and reality
- Questioning/ Inquiry
- Challenging status quo.
- Critical Reflection
• Systems Thinking
- Shared Vision/ Holistic Thinking/ Openness
• Culture Facilitating Learning
-Suggestions/Teamwork/Empowerment/Empathy
Personality
• How people affect others?
• How they understand and view
themselves?
• Pattern of inner and outer measurable
traits.
• Person- situation interaction.
• Role of Nature and Nurture
Core Personality Traits
• Conscientiousness- Dependable,
hardworking, organized, self
disciplined, persistent, responsible.
• Emotional stability- Calm, Secure,
Happy, Unworried.
• Agreeableness- Cooperative, Warm,
Caring, Good Natured, Courteous,
Trusting
• Extraversion- Sociable,
Outgoing, Talkative, Assertive,
Gregarious.
• Openness to experience-
Curious, Intellectual, Creative,
Cultured, Artistically Sensitive,
Flexible, Imaginative
Cognitive Processes
Learning
• Any relatively permanent change in
behaviour as a result of experience.
• Learning paradigms-
- Classical Conditioning.
- Operant Conditioning.
- Social Learning.
- Shaping and Behavioural modification.
Attitude
• A predisposition to feel or act in a
particular way toward some person or
object.
• Factors in attitude change:
- New information.
- Use of fear.
- Resolving discrepancies.
- Peer influence.
Perception
• The process of giving meaning to raw
sensory data.
• Sub processes- Confrontation
- Registration
- Interpretation
- Feedback
- Behaviour
- Consequence.
Attribution
• The process by which people draw
conclusions about the factors that influence
or make sense of one another's behaviour.
• Dispositional attributions-
Behaviour due to internal factors.
• Situational attributions.
Behaviour due to external factors.

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