Organizational Behaviour: Introduction, the self and reality.

1. Organization Behaviour
The self and Reality
Lecture One Introduction

2. Which grey circle is larger?

3. Both grey circles on the last slide
are the same size…….Their Distance is relative to size
appearance is relative to what
surrounds them.

4. Gender is a relative
concept

5. Even simple environments are complex and have multiple
perspectives

6. So do you know what is really going on in this
picture?

7. So if this couple told you that they would be very happy
for their children to undertake higher education. What do
they really mean?

8. Attempt to Deny an unhappy
impress listener Keeping Face family life
Keeping up with the
Narrative device of “Jones”
optimism
“We would be very
happy if our
children undertook
higher education”
Cultural
Could be the truth
expectations
Showing off
Peoples statements can have
multiple meanings

9. How many
Chalices are in
Leonardo da
Vinci’s painting
of the Last
Supper?

10. We see what we want to see

11. Memory
Truth Knowledge Belief
Imagination
Prior knowledge consists of
truth, belief, knowledge, imagination, and memory

12. Randomness &
Changes in any of Unexpectedness Interrelated Factors
A random or unexpected
the factors event that creates an
opportunity
Social Economic
Stage of economic
Social and cultural trends
development.
and drivers.
State of the economy.
Reviving historical trends.
Level of disposable income.
Influence of international
Macroeconomic, general
trends.
industry conditions, financial
Changing demographics.
&geographical environment.
Styles, fashions & fads. Product
Opportunity
Gap
Technology Government &
Current state of the art and Regulation
emerging technology.
Government needs &
Re-evaluating and utilizing
priorities.
existing technology in new
Restriction by Government.
areas.
New laws & regulations and
New knowledge.
impact on product markets
Invention.
and supply chains.
Trade liberalization.
Our Inner Self
New Our upbringing, domicile outlook, experiences,
interests, skills & abilities, assumptions, beliefs,
Knowledge or attitudes, perception, cognitive processes, patterning
and biases, our inner psych and emotions, imagination,
Information energy, and passion, etc.
The way we interact and stimulated by the
environment and make connections

13. The brain can only process one piece
of information at a time

14. Physical Sensations
Physical Awareness
Material Awareness
Social Awareness
Ego Awareness
Spiritual Awareness
True Self
(Universal awareness)
Spiritual Self
Ego Self
Social Self
Material Self
Primal Self
Perception
Society
The layers of our self

15. Exercise
Relax, breath in and
out, remove all your
thoughts, relax your
muscles
Where am “I”?

16. Is this what you found?

17. Our true self is like a computer without any operating system or
software

18. Here is our personal operating system

19. Future Orientation
Emotional
Disturbances
External Locus of Control
Internal Locus of Control
Optimum Region
of Awareness
The Mandela of Awareness Past Orientation

20. Imagination Heuristics
Action adverse Reckless overconfidence
Negative emotions Future Orientation Positive emotions
Optimal drive
Value sets
Optimal learning
Low sense of
efficacy feasibility
Present High sense of
efficacy feasibility
Orientation
Patterning
Past Orientation
Bad memories Good memories
Memory
Imagination
Belief System