PROSOCIAL BEHAVIOR Aims To introduce psychological aspects of prosocial behaviour Objectives • Describe different types of helping behaviour • Discuss different explanations of helping behavior: Why do we help? • Evaluate the Bystander Intervention Model Prosocial Behavior: This discusses the basics of helping behavior. Altruism is distinguished from prosocial behavior. Several theoretical perspectives on helping are considered. These include the evolutionary perspective; the socio-cultural
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group is two or more people who interact with one another such that each person influences and is influenced by each other person. TYPES OF GROUPS Formal formal group is formed by an organization to do its work. command group is a relatively permanent‚ formal group with functional reporting relationships and is usually included in the organization chart. task group is a relatively temporary‚ formal group established to do a specific task. affinity groups are collections of employees from
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Prominent theories of social change Basically‚ change comes from two sources. One source is random or unique factors such as climate‚ weather‚ or the presence of specific groups of people. Another source is systematic factors. For example‚ successful development has the same general requirements‚ such as a stable and flexible government‚ enough free and available resources‚ and a diverse social organization of society. So‚ on the whole‚ social change is usually a combination of systematic factors
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sociological concept social change‚ in sociology‚ the alteration of mechanisms within the social structure‚ characterized by changes in cultural symbols‚ rules of behaviour‚ social organizations‚ or value systems. Social change is the significant alteration of social structures (that is‚ of patterns of social action and interaction)‚ including consequences and manifestations of such structures embodied in norms (rules of conduct)‚ values‚ and cultural products and symbols. Social change refers to any
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Social Change Social change refers to an alteration in the social order of a society. Social change may include changes in nature‚ social institutions‚ social behaviors‚ or social relations. The base of social change is change in the thought process in humans. Social change may also refer to the notion of social progress or socio-cultural evolution‚ the philosophical idea that society moves forward by dialectical or evolutionary means. It may refer to a paradigmatic change in the socio-economic
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Psychology of Human Behavior ROUGH DRAFT Everybody responds and behaves differently to events based on their own personalities. Some people are morning people‚ god knows why‚ but they are. Whereas other people like to stay up later because they get more done at night. That behavior is one that is programed to you from birth. If you don’t like mornings‚ you cannot make yourself like mornings‚ it’s not going to happen. But other behaviors are learned‚ based on our upbringing and environment. Our
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Theories: Psychological behaviour of people towards change International Business Name and number of the course Change Management Teacher responsible for the course Dawn Aarnio Student’s name(s) Nguyen Dinh Dung Assessment Date Grade Teacher’s signature Contents Social cognitive theory “Bandura’s social cognitive theory proposes that people are driven not by inner forces‚ but by
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I. ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR An organization is a complex‚ competitive world. It is only loosely held together. In the study of organization‚ there is the difference between the micro and macro approaches. In the study of human behavior in organizations‚ the conceptual foundation seems to have received relatively little attention. The organizational behavior reflective of the inner sensitivity of society‚ as well as individual’s personal interests. While individuals are forced into a highly organized
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psychology • Concerns the growth of intelligence‚ which for Piaget‚ meant the ability to more accurately represent the world and perform logical operations on representations of concepts grounded in interactions with the world • Schemata – schemes of how one perceives the world; emerges and is developed in developmental stages • We construct our cognitive abilities through self-motivated action in the world • Assimilation – take in material from the environment • Accommodation – difference made
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