Definition: The Organizational Theory refers to the set of interrelated concepts, definitions that explain the behavior of individuals or groups or subgroups, who interacts with each other to perform the activities intended towards the accomplishment of a common goal. In other words, the organizational theory studies the effect of social relationships between the individuals … [Read more...] about Organizational Theory
Analysis of Transactions
Definition: The interactions between people give rise to the Social Transactions, i.e. how people respond and interact with each other depends on their ego states. The transactions routed through ego states of persons can be classified as complementary, crossed and ulterior. Complementary Transactions: A transaction is said to be complementary when the person sending the … [Read more...] about Analysis of Transactions
Life Script
Definition: The Life Script refers to the meaning that one attributes to the events that happened to him at the early stage of life. Psychologists believe that an individual’s life script gets created in his childhood when he learns things unconsciously from the transactions between father, mother and the child. Whenever an individual face any situation, he acts with … [Read more...] about Life Script
Life Positions
Definition: The Life Positions refers to the specific behavior towards others that an individual learns on the basis of certain assumptions made very early in the life. The life positions can be categorized as follows: I am O.K., You are O.K.: This life position shows that an individual has several O.K. experiences with others. This means, an individual encountered … [Read more...] about Life Positions
Ego States
Definition: The Ego States are an important aspect of transactional analysis that talks about how a person feels, behave or think at any point of time. According to Dr Eric Berne, people usually interact with each other in terms of three psychological and behavioral patterns classified as parent ego, adult ego and child ego, often called as a PAC Model. This classification … [Read more...] about Ego States
Johari Window
Definition: The Johari Window is the psychological model developed by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham, that talks about the relationship and mutual understanding between the group members. In other words, a psychological tool that helps an individual to understand his relationship with himself and with other group members is called as a Johari Window. The objective behind … [Read more...] about Johari Window
Transactional Analysis
Definition: The Transactional Analysis refers to the psychoanalytic process wherein the interpersonal behaviors are studied. In other words, a social psychological model that talks about the personal growth and personal change, i.e., identifying the ego states of each individual to understand their behaviors and altering them to solve the emotional problems. This model was … [Read more...] about Transactional Analysis
Group Decision Making
Definition: The Group Decision Making is the collective activity wherein several persons interact simultaneously to find out the solution to a given statement of a problem. In other words, group decision making is a participatory process wherein multiple individuals work together to analyze the problem and find out the optimum solution out of the available set of … [Read more...] about Group Decision Making
Dialectic Decisions Method
Definition: The Dialectic Decisions Method is a technique used to overcome the problem in the group-decision making, wherein the group members quickly agree to one alternative proposal and might overlook more promising solutions than the chosen one. Thus, it ensures a full consideration of alternatives. The reason behind such a quick converge on a single alternative may be, … [Read more...] about Dialectic Decisions Method
Brainstorming
Definition: The Brainstorming is a technique to stimulate creative ideas and solutions through a group discussion. Simply, a process wherein a group attempts to find a solution for the specific problem by aggregating all the spontaneous opinions or suggestions given by each group member individually is called as brainstorming. In a brainstorming session, a group of 10-15 … [Read more...] about Brainstorming