by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs?Psychologist Abraham Maslow proposed the hierarchy of needs. He presented the needs as a pyramid representing the evolution of needs in a hierarchy. That is, individuals seek to meet lower-level needs before moving on to...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Personality?Personality encompasses the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that describe or define a person. Often personality is a generalization that provides insights into how someone will perceive, feel about, and react to a given situation or stimulus....
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What is Individual Perception?Individuals react to the environment based upon how the environment or environmental stimuli register with us. This is the essence of perception. It is an intellectual process. More specifically it is a cognitive and psychological...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What are Attitudes?An attitude can best be understood as a state of mind. The state of mind can be brought on by any number of factors. Generally, an attitude affects a persons disposition and behavior – whether positive or negative. An attitude may be directed...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What Is Stress?Stress concerns any outside force affecting an individual. The forces have physical, mentall, emotional, and behavioral manifestations. Hans Selye proposed the General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) model demonstrating how stress affects an individual in...
by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Management, Leadership, & Organizational Behavior
What Are Emotions?An emotion is an intense feeling. The feeling is generally temporary in nature and brought on by an internal or external stimulus. Emotions affect an individuals ability to receive and cognitively process the information, as well as how s/he reacts...
