INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS By Fadhy Mtanga Industrial Relations is a branch of Social Science that studies the relationship that exists at the workplaces. Industrial Relations focus on the relationship between employers and their associations on one hand‚ and employees with their organizations on the other. Also‚ it is deals with the relationship between the workplaces and the government as the policy and law maker‚ hence the regulator of that relationship. Industrial Relations as the branch
Premium Employment Labour relations Organizational studies and human resource management
over the last century and a half. Another crazy thing is that it usually takes thousands of years for an animal to develop evolutionary changes like the elephant has done‚ but the elephant has done it in 150 years? Well‚ scientists call this rapid evolution and it is all due to one very common problem (Environmental News Network et.al 2008). What I was able to find out though was that this evolutionary change is actually helping them survive. How you may ask? Well‚ one problem in today’s world that
Free Natural selection Evolution Elephant
Military Psychology Military psychology is a broad market of psychology in which virtually any and all subfields of psychology where the lessons of personality‚ organizational and abnormal psychology among others are applied to the needs or desires of military planners and strategists. Reasons for their application may be immediate or sustained. The application of psychological research or theory to the military can be used to analyze either enemy or friendly forces‚ exemplified by perfecting an
Premium World War II Psychological trauma Army
Jack is an organizational development executive at Techzone Communications‚ an international communications and technology company. He has completed his PhD in I/O psychology and has been working at Techzone for seven years. Although he did research during his PhD studies‚ he has not been involved in research since that time. Do you think Jack can be considered a scientist-practitioner? Discuss why or why not. Yes and no. Yes Jack has been working for an international company so he must of
Premium Industrial and organizational psychology Occupational health psychology Psychology
Assignment 2: LASA 1—Conducting an Organizational Assessment The success of an organization depends heavily on its structure‚ strategies‚ and culture. In this assignment‚ you will develop an understanding of the importance of these elements in the success/failure of an enterprise. This assignment is the first of the two LASA assignments you will complete in this course. Using the Argosy University online library resources and the Internet‚ research methods of conducting internal and external
Premium Management Strategic management Business process
LO 1 Define psychology. “The study of behavior & mental process” LO 2 Describe the scope of psychology and its subfields. “The psychology is a broad field that includes many perspectives and SUBFIELDS. APA the American Psychological Association and the APS The Association for Psychological Science. Psychologists conduct two major types of research Basic research which is “often done in universities” and focuses on collecting data to support (or refute) theories and gathers knowledge for the sake
Free Psychology Scientific method
PSYCHOLOGY Psychology is derived from the Greek words Psyche and logos‚ meaning soul and study. To Greeks‚ Psychology is simply a study of the soul. Psychology as the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes. Scientific because it uses the steps in a scientific method in its quest to understand why a person behaves in a certain manner. It is systematic and empirical and it is dependent upon measurements. Psychologists - study human issues that begin before birth and continue
Premium Psychology
Chapter 1 Read chapter 1 (“What is Organizational Behavior”) in your e-text‚ answer these questions‚ and watch the chapter 1 quiz video for course mentor clarification. 1) Johanna Reid‚ a campaign manager at a child rights organization‚ recently started working on an illiteracy project. During the project‚ she needs to motivate team members to attain their project milestones and direct them through different phases of the project. Which of the following kinds of functions will these tasks be covered
Premium Management Cognition
2005). Organizational Behaviour Defined Behaviour on the other hand‚ he defines simply as “the actions of people (Robins 2005). Organization behaviour (often referred to as OB) is the behaviour (actions) of individuals and groups within organizations and the interaction between organizations and their external environment. It constitutes a behavioural science field of study that borrows its core concepts from other disciplines‚ principally psychology‚ sociology‚ social psychology‚ anthropology
Premium Maslow's hierarchy of needs Psychology Sociology
The Evolution of Management Management thinking and practice have evolved over the last century as a result of increased understanding of human and organisational behaviour‚ the economic climate and historical context and the changes in generations over time. However if we’re really honest‚ much of what we practice today is due to the consulting industry playing on executives’ fears and aspirations by selling products and services that cause more problems than solutions‚ and our own human weakness
Premium Management