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Unit 8: Foundations of Organisational Behaviour
experiences, aware, and not defensive; they have harmonious relations with others, and Notes
they have unconditional positive self-regard.
To promote human welfare, Rogers maintains, people should relate to one another with
unconditional positive regard. Unconditional positive regard is the complete unqualified
acceptance of another person as he or she is.
The Goal of an organisational behaviour model: The goal of presenting the frameworks
so far discussed is to better understand, not evaluate, the complex phenomena collectively
called human behaviour. The field of organisational behaviour serves as the basis for
modern human resource management. Prediction and control of human resources are
critical to the goals of modern management. Thus, the goals of a model of organisational
behaviour are to understand, predict and control human behaviour in organisations.
Task Discuss analytically about at least 2 self actualized persons you have come
across with.
8.7 Meaning of Individual Behaviour
Individual behaviour is the ability of an individual to react and interact with others in general
or while performing a particular task. It is determined by not just a measure of his practical
knowledge or skills in a functional area such as human relations, marketing, or information and
communications technologies; but also a reflection of personal experiences, qualities, aptitudes
and attitudes.
Employees with good behaviour have high personal effectiveness. It is offered by allowing
oneself to make self assessment across a wide range of tasks and activities such as teamwork and
presentation skills, and ability to manage stress, to influence others, to plan, to relate to others
and to priorities objectives.
To convert one's self-knowledge into action and success, one needs to do three things:
1. Raise the level of awareness
2. Identify one's key development needs
3. Create realistic action plans.
8.7.1 Determinants of Individual Behaviour
There are many determinants of the individual behaviour. The main factors are as under:
1. Personality: Personality plays the most important role in determining a person's behaviour.
There are various personality types and their behaviour differs according to the differences
in the persona. But the personalities can be modified and developed in order to be more
effective.
2. Perception, attribution and individual decision making: The performance of an individual
also depends to a great extent on what he thinks is right, doable, worth working for, etc.
Hence a very important role is played by an individual's perception and attribution about
various things. Right kind of perceptions and attributions result in right decision making.
3. Attitudes, values and ethics: What we are is determined up to a big extent by our values,
ethics and the attitudes that we develop over the period of our lives.
These determinants play a major role in influencing an individual's behaviour.
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