Welcome to our presentation

Foundation of Individual Behavior

Content Ability

Intellectual Ability

Dimension of Intellectual ability

Physical Ability

Other factor of physical ability

Biographical Characteristics Learning

Social Learning

Learning Process

ABILITY

An individual’s capacity to perform various tasks in a job.

Intellectual Ability

The Capacity to do mental activities- thinking, reasoning and problem solving.

Dimensions of Intellectual Ability

Number aptitude

Ability to do speedy and accurate arithmetic.Ex: Accountant.

Verbal comprehension

Ability to understand what is read or heard and the relationship of words to each otherEx: Plant manager.

Perceptual speed

Ability to identify visual similarities and differences quickly and accurately.Ex: Fire investigator

Inductive reasoning

Ability to identify logical sequence in a problem and then solve the problem.Ex: Market researcher.

Deductive reasoning

Ability to use logic and assess the implication of an argument.Ex: supervisor

Spatial visualization

Ability to imagine how an object would look if its position in space were changedEx: interior decorator.

MemoryAbility to retain and recall past experience.Ex: Salesperson.

Dimensions of Intellectual Ability

Physical Ability

The Capacity to do tasks that demand stamina, dexterity, strength and similar characteristics.

Body Coordination

Ability to coordinate the simultaneous actions of different parts of the body

Balance Ability to maintain equilibrium despite forces pulling of balance

Stamina Ability to continue maximum effort requiring prolonged effort over time.

Other Factors of Physical Ability

Personal characteristics- such as age, gender, race and length of tenure that are objective and easily obtained from personal record.

Gender

Race

Age

Tenure

BiographicalCharacteristics

influence OrganizationalBehavior

Biographical Characteristics

LEARNING

A relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs as a result of experience.

Social learning: Learn through both observation and direct experience is called social learning.

Attentional process

People learn from a model only when they recognize and pay attention to its critical feature

Retention process

A model’s influence depends on how well the individual remembers the model’s action after the model is no longer readily available.

Learning Process

Learning Process

Motor reproduction

process

This process then demonstrate that the individual can perform the modeled activities.

Reinforcement process

Behaviors that are positively reinforced are given more attention, learned better and performed more often.