...understanding of people behavior who works in organizational settings. Organizational psychology has principles to help employees understand the behavior of the people working in organizational settings (Jex & Britt, 2008). The knowledge obtained from organizational psychology helps organizations to become more effective. Organizations are defined through defining characteristics, behavior patterns, and structures imposed on the perspective applicants. This paper will contain discussion of these principles within the recruitment process from both organizational and applicant perspectives along with how organizational psychology principles is used in the recruitment process, organizational socialization concept, and applying organizational psychology to organizational socialization. This paper gives personal insights of how they relate to work experiences. Organizational and Applicant Perspective of Recruitment Process According to Taylor and Bergmann (2006), organization’s recruitment process is toward green production. Employees and organization receive benefits that attract ideal employees because organizational recruitment has affected the reactions applicants have towards organizations and the job attributes associated with the positions such as salary and organizations locations. Organizational perspective of the recruitment process is that behavior can begin in the attraction recruitment stage. Based on the organization perspective, recruitment applies specific...
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...Applying Organizational Psychology April 28, 2014 Applying Organizational Psychology The purpose of this paper is to describe how the principles of organizational psychology can be applied to organizational recruitment and socialization. The author will discuss the recruitment process from an organizational and applicant perspective. The author will describe how the principles of organizational psychology can be used in the recruitment process. The author will describe the concept of organizational socialization. Lastly, the author will explain how the principles of organizational psychology can be applied to organizational socialization. Recruitment Process from an Organizational and Applicant Perspective During the recruitment process an organizations goal is to gather enough qualified candidates so that they can see who best fits their business, will be a productive employee, and have longevity at the company (Jex & Britt, 2008). The recruitment process is not closely related to organizational psychology, as much as it is to socialization. This is because a successful recruitment process will result in employees being more socialized, and fitting in with the culture of the company (Jex & Britt, 2008). During the recruitment process candidates are not randomly selected, but instead there is planning to it and candidates are picked based upon a strategic planning. Candidates are chosen based upon several factors, which are how...
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...fit the position within the organization. Starting with the recruitment and hiring process, to the first day of work the principles of organizational psychology are important within any organization. The purpose of this paper is to assess the recruitment process from the perspectives of both an organization and applicant, explain how the principles of organizational psychology can be used in the recruitment process, discuss the concept of organizational socialization and examine how the principles of organizational psychology can be applied to organizational socialization. The Recruitment Process Organizational Perspective The concept behind the recruitment process is to assemble a sizeable group of qualified applicants for a potential job. This process allows an organization to evaluate which potential applicants will be the best fit for the company, has the most potential to become successful within the company and will stay with the company for a long time (Jex & Britt, 2008). Recruitment intertwines with socialization because effective recruitment warrants that new employees will fit in with the culture of the company and thus are more likely to be successfully socialized (Jex & Britt, 2008). Recruitment planning is the initial stage within the recruitment process. In this...
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...Political Socialization is the process which we develop our political values and opinions according to the term discussed in class. There are many forms of political socialization that can influence a person’s opinion or value about something. Everyone does not have the same value and opinions as others do because we were all raised different. There are also many influences of political socialization. Friends, neighbors, and other peers influence political socialization. Two major influences of political socialization are family and school. Family and school have been an influence that we have seen from early childhood and the media has acted as agent of political socialization. Family is one of the two most important influences on political...
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...The Functionalist Theory of Socialization Socialization is the process by which individuals become self-aware and learn the culture. Socialization is categorized into two: Primary socialization, which is socialization done in early years of life; and Secondary socialization; which is socialization that continues throughout life. Functionalists see society as based on consensus – a system of shared norms and values. Marxists see society as based on conflict, the conflict is based on differing interest of those with economic power know as bourgeoisie and the masses/working class known as the proletariat. Interactionist consider the meaning individuals give to their actions which arise out of interaction with others, in other words people’s behavior is not the product of external forces such as society. Functionalists see society as a system or structure that operates similar to that of the human body. The system has different parts known as social institutions. The Institutions have useful roles/functions to perform which leads to a well ordered society. They say the purpose of socialization is to unite society in set of shared norms and values which is known consensus. Functionalists, such as Talcott Parsons, saw socialization as vital to the process by which a value consensus is produced in society. Socialization provides people with common goals, and teaching them the appropriate behavior associated with particular roles and allows them to learn the norms of social...
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...international process resulting from the socialization of state-society units into the modern global culture which originated some two centuries ago in the West (Bull,1977). Contrary to the assumptions of world-polity and some recentering theorists, however, state socialization to democracy as a constitutive norm is far from assured, and in particular, some states (guardians) resist socialization fiercely while others embrace it. Guardian states such as China and India developed their traditions of resistance as a result of being unable to resolve the ‘‘tiyong crisis’’ in a way that would finesse geopolitical and geo-symbolic decentering[2]. Elites in the pre-modern Siamese state resolved their tying crisis by re-imagining the Thai national essence as consistent with modernity’s basic presuppositions development that eventually helped facilitate Chinese recentering. Once transformed in the 1990s, the Chinese state became an agent of socialization by proselytizing for democracy within Asian[3]. Successful decentering is a complex historical process resulting from, among other things, the socialization of state-society units into an international normative order ‘‘modern’’ and Western in origin. Numerous actors at home and abroad promote decentering in the process of socializing non-democratic states into what Stanford sociologist John Meyer[4] have called a ‘‘world polity’’ informed by a modernist ‘‘global culture.’’. Agents of socialization include other states, international...
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...Journal Entry #2 Socialization plays a major key in human development as well as culture. Culture consists of conventional understandings that guide peoples’ interpretations, actions, and iterations. (Handel, Gerald, Spencer Cahill, and Frederick Elkin 57) Societies of all types each have a role in dividing the human life course into types of stages. Each stage defines a person in a unique way and one example of a stage is age grading. Whether you are a child, adolescent or even an adult, we all experience age grading at different levels. As we grow up, we develop these traits and become a woman or a man following all the stages in the process. On another note, the history of western childhood (Handel, Gerald, Spencer Cahill, and Frederick Elkin 65) is explained in the text that caused a bit of satisfaction when social historian Philippe Aries claimed that childhood in medieval society never existed. He says that, “It provoked a great deal of interest in the previously unexplored history of childhood in Western societies.” Aries definitely did overstate his case but his more general and important point is beyond dispute....
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...Socialization From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the sociological concept. For the political and economic concept, see Socialization (economics). Sociology Portal Theory · History Positivism · Antipositivism Functionalism · Conflict theory Middle-range · Mathematical Critical theory · Socialization Structure and agency Research methods Quantitative · Qualitative Historical · Computational Ethnographic · Network analytic Topics · Subfields Cities · Class · Crime · Culture Deviance · Demography · Education Economy · Environment · Family Gender · Health · Industry · Internet Knowledge · Law · Medicine Politics · Mobility · Race and ethnicity Rationalization · Religion · Science Secularization · Social networks Social psychology · Stratification Categories · Lists Journals · Sociologists Article index · Outline Major category: Sociology v t e Socialization (or socialisation) is a term used by sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists, political scientists and educationalists to refer to the lifelong process of inheriting and disseminating norms, customs and ideologies. It may provide the individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating within their own society; a society develops a culture through a plurality of shared norms, customs, values, traditions, social roles, symbols and languages. Socialization is thus ‘the means by which social and cultural continuity are attained’.[1]. [2] Socialization...
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...AND CULTURES TOPIC: SOCIALIZATION 1.0 Definition / Scope Sociologists, Social Psychologists, anthropologists, as well as Educationalists and Politicians use the word “Socialization” in reference to the process through which an individual inherits the norms, customs and ideologies of the social order they live in. Socialization is necessary for making an individual capable of interacting within the society and a society itself shares the common values, customs, norms, traditions languages etc. Socialization is the process whereby the helpless infant gradually becomes a self-aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of the culture into which she or he is born. Socialization is not a kind of ‘cultural programming’, in which the child absorbs passively the influences with which he or she comes into contact. Socialization is a lifelong process by which one keep learning and developing oneself as a human being. Socialization process is very important as it teaches one to behave in a society. Without socialization, one would not be able to learn the accepted customs, norms, symbols, languages and behaviours. Socialization helps one develop and shape one’s place by learning social skills. Socialization in a layman’s sense is the process of learning from others. This learning process starts right after birth or after the emergence from the womb. It is Socialization that fills the tabula raza mind we come into existence with. Socialization technically starts at...
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...newcomer to the special field of sociology, I find the term of sociological imagination as the most applicable and understandable term to understand the complex and broad field of sociology. Thereby i state my thesis: Is social imagination the best and simplest way to understand the field of sociology? Sociological imagination was coined by C. Wright Mills (1959) as the process of linking individual biographies to the larger social contexts. By this perspective one can say that the sociological imagination can help explain humans and society by seeing "the human in society and the society within humans". According to Peter Berger this connection can be portrayed by thinking that: "Every individual biography is an episode within the history of society" (Berger 1967; 3). "Society is a dialectic phenomenon in that it is a human product, and nothing but a human product, that yet continuously acts back upon its producer" (Berger 1967; 3). By this Berger puts in words the common sociological notion that society is human made (as for the term itself), and how all humans are a part of their own...
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...duction Socialization is the process by which society integrates the individual and the individual learns to behave in socially acceptable ways this involves learning interpersonal and interactional skills that are in conformity with the values of one's society. the society expects an individual learns to live in accordance with the its expectations and standards, acquiring its beliefs, habits, values, and accepted modes of behavior primarily through imitation, family interaction, and educational systems; it is primarily the procedure by which society integrates the individual. An agent of socialization is an individual or institution tasked with the replication of the Social Order. An agent of socialization is responsible for transferring the rules, expectations, norms, values, and folkways of a given social order. In advanced capitalist society, the principle agents of socialization include the family, the media, the school system, religious and spiritual institutions, and peer groups. It is important to note that our current social order is a tiered social order. It is based on authority, hierarchy, and the differential assignment of value to human individuals (i.e., some individuals like CEOs and presidents are worth more than others). Within this context, individuals receive differential socialization. Those born into the lower tiers receive a socialization process geared to fitting them into the low level, wage based sectors of The System. Those born into the higher...
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...primary agents of socialization for children and young adults today are family, peer groups, mass media and school. I say this because it is where children and young adults socialize. The family is the main agent of socialization because children and young adults spend the most time with their families and first learn values from their families. Families come in different sizes - parents (married, single, or divorced), grandparents and extended family and this affects children. Families also just don’t socialize their children within the walls of their home. Parents teach values that children and young adults will have for their entire life along with gender roles. Socialization is affected by social times – for example, 50 years ago children were spanked with a wooden spoon for misbehavior but today, for many, it is considered child abuse. Other family factors such as race, social class, wealth, also affect the socialization of children and young adults (Openstax). Peer groups are also agents for socialization for children and young adults. Peer groups are made up of individuals about the same age and have similar social characteristics such as participating in sports, religion, or similar activities. In young adults, acceptance by their peer group is very important to them, which is why peer groups are so influential on young adults. Because young adults want to be like their peers, they want to become what they think their peers want them to be. Often there is conflict between...
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...SOCIALIZATION AND THE TAHITIAN CULTURE Rodolfo C. Pimentel Columbia Southern University SOC 1010 Socialization and the Tahitian Culture Introduction to the Tahitian Culture The culture that I chose to research was Tahiti. I have always wanted to visit the islands of Tahiti to experience the beautiful landscape, rich culture and friendly locals. Currently, Tahiti is a nation in the Pacific which is blended in the French and Polynesian heritage. The language spoken in Tahiti is mainly Tahitian and Tuamotu while English and French are learned as secondary languages. The number...
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...psychological, sociological. Against : Biologically 1. Tiger and Fox argued that men are naturally more aggressive and women are passive. a. Argue that 99% of history, men have been hunters and the aggression, power and leadership qualities required were built into their genes by biogramming. b. Women were instead programmed for softness, affection and non-agression. 2. Sex differences determine that men are the breadwinners of the family as men are physically more capable while women should stay at home to bear and look after children as women are emotionally capable. Psychologically 1. Sigmund Freud argued that the unconscious mind is important in understanding conscious thought and behaviour. Saw individuals as being in a conflict between their: · ego(the conscious reality-testing self) · id(instincts and unconscious/repressed life) · super-ego (the value internalized from parents and the wider society). For: Sociologically 1. George Herbert Mead focuses on the development of the self and the objectivity of the world within the social realm: that "the individual mind can exist only in relation to other minds with shared meanings" (Mead 1982: 5). 2. Mead also argues that children passes through several socialization phases before becoming socially...
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...Discuss how far sociologists would agree that the mass media is a more powerful agent of socialization than the education system. Mass media is a more powerful agent of socialization than the education system because it is the medium by which a certain element of reality is constructed (reality as in understanding of the society by members of society) and that it can influence culture and transmit culture to the population. Since culture is the integral part to human existence, it is the core that combines religion, politics, ideology, philosophy, history, tradition, and trends all in one, which all influence human behaviour and influence self-perception and identity. The cultural values that are transmitted by the media thereby shape the thinking patterns, values, interests and sense of identity to individuals, which causes individuals to take in the information and assimilate it - hence being an agent of socialization. Because everyone is exposed to the media since they are children to adults, they are under its influence. The functionalist point of view, you can say that the media dictates to the populace the values and the type of thinking that is required in order to conform with the rest of society in order to be an "upstanding member of society". For instance, people are socialized to take in worldviews, political opinions, and values that enable them to assimilate the prevailing ideology set by the economic and political system: capitalism. The idea of what constitutes...
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