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Learning Outcomes:
Individual Differences
Individual differences refer to the variation in how people respond to the same situation based on
personal characteristics.
1. Differences in productivity
2. Differences in the quality of their work
3. Differences in how people react to empowerment
4. Difference in how people react to any style of leadership
5. Difference in terms of needs for contact with other people
6. Difference in terms of commitment to the organization
7. Difference in terms of level of self-esteem.
a. Demographic Differences
- Gender Differences
o The differences in the perception of male and female roles are referred to as
gender differences.
o Men and women are not different along the following concerns: problem
solving abilities; analytical skills; competitive drive; motivation; learning
ability; and sociability.
- Generational and Age-Based
o a worker that belongs to a certain generation may have differently from a
worker who belongs to another.
o Differences in the ages of workers also bring about expectations of
differences in the behavior of workers.
o This is seen most often in age difference since age is associated with
experience.
- Culture
o It refers to the learned and shared ways of thinking and acting among a
group of people or society.
b. Aptitude and ability
Aptitude is defined as the capacity of a person to learn or acquire skills.
Ability refers to an individual’s capacity to perform the various tasks in a job.
1. Dynamic strength- the ability to exert muscular force repeatedly or continuously over time.
2. Trunk strength – the ability to exert muscular strength using the trunk muscles.
3. Static strength – the ability to exert force against external objects.
4. Explosive strength – the ability to expend a maximum of energy in one or a series of
explosive acts.
5. Extent flexibility – the ability to move the trunk and back muscles as far as possible.
6. Dynamic flexibility – the ability to make rapid, repeated flexing movements.
7. Body coordination – the ability to coordinate the simultaneous actions of different parts of
the body.
8. Balance – the ability to maintain equilibrium despite forces pulling off balance.
9. Stamina – the ability to continue maximum effort requiring prolonged effort over time.
Personality
Refers to the sum total of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others.
The “ways” are the patterns of behavior that are consistent and enduring.
Determinants of Personality
1. Hereditary factors are those factors that are determined at conception
2. Environmental factors are those that exert pressures on the formation of an individual’s
personality.
1. Cultural factors
- Refers to the established norms, attitudes, and values that are passed along from
one generation to the next and creates consistency over time.
2. Social factors
- Refers to those that reflects family life, religion and the many kinds of formal and
informal groups in which the individual participants throughout his life.
3. Situational factors
- Indicate that the individual will behave differently in different situations.
1. Emotional stability
- Characterizes one as calm, self-confident, and secure.
- A person who possesses in a high degree of emotional stability can be expected to
withstand stress.
2. Extraversion
- Someone who is sociable, gregarious, and assertive.
3. Openness to experience
- A person who is imaginative, cultured, curious, original, broad – minded, intelligent,
and artistically sensitive.
4. Agreeableness
- It refers to the person’s interpersonal orientation.
- An agreeable person is cooperative, warm, and trusting.
5. Conscientiousness
- It refers to a person’s reliability.
6. Self-monitoring behavior
- It reflects a person’s ability to adjust his or her behavior to external, situational, or
environmental factors.
7. Risk taking and thrill seeking
- It refers to the person’s willingness to take risk and pursue thrills that sometimes are
required in the workplaces.
8. Optimism
- It refers to the tendency to experience positive emotional states and to typically
believe that positive outcomes will be forthcoming from most activities.
Emotional Intelligence
The concept of emotional intelligence or emotional quotient was introduced by Daniel Goleman.
It refers to the ability of the person to accurately perceive, evaluate, express and regulate
emotions and feelings.
MODULE 2: WORK TEAM AND GROUPS
Learning Outcomes:
It is defined as two or more persons, interacting and interdependent, who have come
together to achieve certain objectives.
Classification of Groups
1. Formal Group
- Defined by the organization structure, with designated work assignments and
established tasks
2. Informal Group
- Neither formally structured nor organizationally determined.
- Formed by individuals and developed around common interests and
friendship rather than around a deliberate design
1. Command group
- Composed of individuals who report directly to a certain manager
2. Task group
- Consisting of persons working together to complete a job task
3. Interest group
- Formed because of some special topic interest
- Group disbands when the interest declines or a goal has been achieved.
4. Friendship groups
- Is where members are brought together because they share one or more
common characteristics such as age, political beliefs, etc.
- Often extend their interaction and communication to activities outside of their
jobs.
1. Knowledge contributor
- A member who provides useful and valid information
2. Process observer
- Person looks at how the group functions
3. People supporter
- Person who assumes the role of people supporter who provides emotional
support to teammates and resolve conflicts.
4. Challenger
- Someone who confronts and challenge bad ideas to prevent complacency.
5. Listener
- Person who listens to whatever ideas or proposals presented by any member
of the group.
6. Mediator
- Person who assumes the role of mediator.
7. Gatekeeper
- Person who makes sure that every member has the opportunity to express
his or her opinion.
8. Take-charge leader
- Person who assumes the role of the take-charge leader so that the group can
then move forward by defining its mission and determining its objectives.
Advantages of Groups
1. More inputs from various perspectives can be made available for effective decision
making.
2. Synergism is more likely when people work together as a group.
3. People in the groups are more supportive of decisions that were formulated with their
assistance.
4. It allows the efficient exchange of information for effective problem solving.
5. The opportunity for fulfilling the safety, affiliation, and esteem needs of group members
is made available.
6. Group members get mutual support from each other.
Disadvantages of Groups
1. Group activity is usually slower and more cumbersome because every member has the
opportunity to make contributions.
2. Group meetings are held to disseminate strictly routine data that could be more
efficiently conveyed in writing.
3. The group’s decision may be diluted by every member’s input, making the decision
ineffective.
4. Accountability is often a problem with group activity.
5. There are occasions when some member shirk responsibility and let other members of
the group do the work.
6. When the group is highly cohesive and motivated, outside criticism tends to be ignored
as group members look inward for reinforcement of each other’s opinions.
Groupthink
a. Interacting groups
- Members interact with each other face to face
- The essence of interaction is the sending and receiving of information.
- It is susceptible to “group think”
b. Brainstorming
- A problem – solving technique which promotes creativity by encouraging
members to come up with any ideas.
c. Normal group technique
- Individual members meet face to face to pool their judgments in a systematic
but independent fashion
d. Electronic Meeting
- Members interact through computers, allowing anonymity of comments and
aggregation of votes.
Work team is a formal group comprised of people interacting very closely together with
a shared commitment to accomplish agreed-upon objectives.
Types of Teams
1. Problem-solving teams
- These are groups of 5 to 12 employees from the same department who meet
for a few hours a week to discuss ways of improving quality, efficiency, and
work environment.
2. Self-managed work teams
- They are empowered to make decisions about work schedules, task
allocations, job skills training, performance evaluation, selection of new team
members, and controlling quality of work.
3. Cross functional teams
- They are composed of employees from about the same hierarchical levels,
but from different work areas, who come together to accomplish a task.
4. Virtual teams
- They use computer technology to tie together physically dispersed members
in order to achieve a common goal.
1. Team size must be kept as small as possible. The larger the team, the more difficult it
would be to manage it.
2. The team members must have a sufficient range of skills, information, and/or
experience to do the task.
3. Team members must have a sense of common purpose like the feeling that what they
are doing is critical to the success of the organization.
4. The team must be free to develop its work procedures.
5. The team must have a sense of accountability.
Changing Membership
Social Loafing
- The tendency for individuals to expend less effort when working collectively
than when working individually.
- The reasons for social loafing are because members:
1. Think their contribution is less noticeable; and
2. Prefer to see others carry the workload.