Foundations of Individual Behavior
Foundations of Individual Behavior
Contents:

Individual behavior 03 Foundations of Individual Behavior 04 Biographical characteristics 05  Age 05  Gender 06  Marital status 06 Tenure 07 Ability 07  intellectual 08  physical 08 The Ability-Job Fit 09 Learning 10 Definition of Learning 10 Theories of Learning 10  classical conditioning 10  operant conditioning 10  Social learning. 11 Operant Conditioning 12 Social Learning 12 Shaping: A Managerial Tool 14 Schedules of Reinforcement 14 Behavior Modification 16 Specific Organizational Applications 17 Using lotteries to reduce absenteeism 18 Well pay vs. sick pay 18 Employee discipline 18 Developing training programs 18 Social-learning theory suggests that training should 19 SSelf-management 19

Individual Behavior
Individual behavior refers to how individual behaves at work place, his behavior is influenced by his attitude, personality, perception, learning and motivating. This also refers to the combination of responses to internal and external stimuli.
Foundations of Individual Behavior
Three individual variables * biographical characteristics * ability * learning
Biographical characteristics are readily available to managers. Generally, they include data that are contained in an employee’s personnel file. The most important conclusions are that age seems to have no relationship to productivity; older workers and those with longer tenure are less likely to resign; and married employees have fewer absences, less turnover, and report higher job satisfaction than do unmarried employees. But what value can this information have for managers? The obvious answer is that it can help in making choices among job applicants.
Ability