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Performance appraisal involves formal evaluation of one’s job performance. At a previous job as a pre-school teacher, performance evaluation involved supervisors rating performance of employees on a check list measuring job performance based on employees job descriptions. Individuals were rated on a scale of 1-4 on how well they had met job performance criteria after…

Hilton: Organization Psychology Introduction             Staff motivation forms the best tool for ensuring maximum productivity of an organization.  Over the years, most organizations have embraced organization psychology as a direct tool for ensuring staff satisfaction and therefore enhanced morale to perform their duties.  Scholars argue that an organization success can only be defined by the…

What is industrial psychology? Industrial psychology is a branch of psychology that makes use of psychological principles and theories in organizations. It is in most cases referred to as I/O psychology. Industrial psychology is a field of psychology that lays focus on the increasing workplace productivity and related challenges occurring to employees in an organization…

Introduction In the world of business, how people within an organization act as members of that organization has an immense influence upon the lives of all individuals. Often, this impact is something that many people do not always consider except when the result is very bad or very good. One example of this occurs when…

In doing research for my topic, it was very easy to find descriptions of the vertical farming process, but hard to find real life vertical arms in today’s world. I searched online for what seemed like forever and read countless books. I narrowed research down by finding the most accurate examples that fitted my need…

When someone says that psychology is a process of using simply common sense, this is far fetched. Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes. (Myers,1998) Psychology is filled with hundreds of different theories and has been using studies to observe peoples behavior for years. Some parts of psychology are common sense, but every…

Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience study the mind and its processes. Cognitive psychology aims to understand how the mind learns about and utilizes information, while cognitive neuroscience combines knowledge about the brain with cognitive processes. According to Ulric Neisser (1967), cognition involves activities like modifying, simplifying, expanding, retaining, retrieving, and using sensory input. The mind…

The article thoroughly discusses the theories that guide the Ifaluk in describing and explaining human nature in terms of behavior, consciousness, differences and similarities of their concepts of “self” and “others.” The author broadly describes how the Ifaluk speak of themselves as persons who are relatively undivided internally and socially. The Ifaluk can, according to…

The following definitions are common in the literature: “A person is being bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other students” (Losses, 1993, p. 9). “A student is being bullied or picked on when another student says nasty and unpleasant things to…

According to Myers (2014) defines Social Psychology as a scientific study of how people influence one another. Social Psychology therefore, tries to understand how thoughts, environment and behaviors can shape an individual’s characters. Social Psychology began with theoretical contributions of early scholars in 18th Century. Amongst them are David Hume, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste…