Understanding The Unconscious Meanings Behind Individuals

Industrial-organizational (I/O) psychologists- Study how people’s work environments affect them. Can help workers improve efficiency

There is a lot that we can learn from Disney’s Pixar movie Inside Out including leadership and group decision making processes. Inside Out is about a young girl named Riley who lives in Minnesota and the five emotions, Fear, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Joy, that characterize her. When Riley moves from Minnesota to San Francisco, the emotions must help Riley stay happy and strong with all the changes she has been going through, but the story takes a twist when Joy and Sadness get trapped outside of headquarters, which is where all the emotions are posted. In this paper I reference Inside Out to three Industrial and Organizational Psychology topics including abuse of power, emotions at work, and groupthink.

Our identity is comprised of inner qualities and outer representations of self. It consists of innumerable defining characteristics that make up the whole of who we are in any given moment. These fragments of self include our sexuality, gender, and sense of belonging to a particular culture, nation, religion, family, or some other group. Our identity includes our looks, personality, beliefs and fears. Each individual in society assigns themselves a particular role, whether it be as a mother, brother, retiree, performer, sportsman or as a part of their occupation, a doctor or lawyer. Often one’s entire sense of self is consumed by

Give examples of how the Behaviour and actions of individuals could affect others within the workplace.

I/O PSYCHOLOGY IN THE MOVIE OFFICE SPACE Introduction Most movies are a reflection of society and the type of interpersonal interactions that shape human lives, although they are typically revamped to fit a certain genre. In the movie Office Space, the satirical twist is on the human experience of the work environment. It is a comical depiction of how coworkers interact with each other and how they endure stressful job-related situations that we can all relate to. There are psychological concepts represented in this movie from various fields of psychology.

In Psychology Today, research has shown that the more roles people fill, the more sources of self-esteem they have. Meaningful work has long been one of the most important ways to feel good about oneself. With either no work environment at all or an unhealthy one, a person’s self-esteem can go down tremendously. The hard-working community must face the terrifying fact that their identity is so highly linked to their job. Failure to maintain a job or fulfill a days’ worth of work connects with their personal emotions which then can result in low self-esteem, self-loathing, or depression.

We argue that social positions characterized by powerlessness and by the threat of victimization and exploitation tend to produce paranoia. Powerlessness leads to the belief that important outcomes in one’s life are controlled by external forces and other persons, rather than by one’s own choice and effort. The belief in external control interacts with the threat of victimization or exploitation to produce mistrust, which may then develop into paranoia.

Working in an environment where sickness and death are always around the corner can make a lot of people numb. Simple human emotions - anger, envy, competitiveness - get into play every day regardless of one’s education or position. Some can put them aside and some cannot.

Another issue Grohol goes on to point out is how the solutions given by the Brafmans don’t go into extreme depth, which could potentially lead the reader to wonder how they are to overcome such behaviors. The vague manner of these explanations are often hard to remember and apply when confronted with a real life situations, argues Grohol. However, this is not the books intention. One should not expect for Sway to act as a panacea to the sways of everyday life and one's own irrational behavior, as every situation is different and no one has the same experience with irrational behaviors. If the Brafman’s were to do so it would shift the whole purpose and audience of this book, making it seem rather textbook-ish. While Rom Brafman may be a practicing psychologist, this book is not intended for the purpose of a diagnosis book. By bringing in author Ori Brafman, who specializes in business and employee engagement, a perspective of how this works in situations outside of the typical clinical

Industrial Organizational (I/O) Psychology deals with employee training and development, structure organization and consumer behavior including stress management and motivation techniques. The purpose of this paper is to apply I/O Psychology to a casino security officer employee and the organization. Working as a security officer for a casino can be challenging, however, with a

Each and every living being on the planet – without exception – happens to be a social animal that, throughout the course of their life, gets influenced by the culture, incidents, society, every imaginable phenomenon that surrounds them. The Social Animal by American psychologist and author Elliot Aronson, who is most well-known for his theory on Cognitive dissonance, gain-loss theory of attraction and others, is a remarkable piece work with an in-depth analysis on the idea of social influence on specific individuals. Moreover, the book reveals how the mind of a person changes through time, as the result of being exposed to an immense amount of pressure from a situation, human being or a group of people. Consequently, the ideas of social influence,

The projects introduced were either in‐house, outside or half and halves. They included proficient advising to staff and their families, associate backing, discriminating occurrence reaction administrations, post‐ injury benefits, and related trainings. The creator prescribed that the accompanying fixings be incorporated in anxiety diminishment programs for revisions staff: (1) Appointing skilled and committed staff who can withstand the anxiety of helping other people; (2) Earning the buy‐in of leaders (directors and union authorities), line staff and their families; (3) Offering classified projects and a wide mixed bag of fitting administrations; (4) Training administrators to distinguish and methodology staff who may be encountering mental challenges because of anxiety; (5) Positively affecting the working environment society to decrease a few reasons for anxiety; and (6) Monitoring anxiety lessening and expense funds program exercises and assessing their viability on a progressing

This essay demonstrates my understanding of the psychological theories and concepts which were discussed in lectures as I have applied this knowledge to the case example. I have employed two psychological topics such as the Humanistic perspective of personality and Stress and Coping theory.

While labor can and is often seen as work that is done physically, it is also seen as an act which necessitates using mind and soul. Depending on the area in which an individual works, it can lean towards using all three – body, mind, and soul – to be successful. It is at this point that Emotional Labor (Hochschild, 1983) begins to take its place in the work environment. Emotional Labor is using self to perform work where an employee creates a pleasant atmosphere by giving good customer service. The ability to use self as a means to perform better on the job may have larger implications than we know of. This paper will look at different ideas which contribute to Emotional Labor as a workplace construct and the effects it has on the

Social psychology is a subfield of Psychology and Sociology that is interested in how the thoughts, feelings and behaviour of individuals and social groups are influenced by the presence of others such as families, work groups, and organisations. Indeed, Robbins (2003) states that many theories originally developed within Social Psychology have directly influenced the concepts and theories found in organisational behaviour concerning communication processes, decision-making, conflict management and politics and in turn have led to the development of many techniques used in these areas.