Introduction

• Concerned with wide variety of behavior

and mental process
• Excellence and Efficiency
• Satisfaction and self fulfillment among the
individual
• Human skills applied to management
• Non scientific and modern scientific
 Definition
• Human nature is the concept that there are a set
of logical characteristics, including ways of
thinking, feeling and acting that all normal
human beings have in common.
• The sum of qualities and traits shared by all
humans.
• the ways of thinking, acting, and reacting that
are common to most or all human beings or that
are learned in social situations
 Study of Human Nature

1. To understand why people behave in a

particular way.

• every individual behaves differently.

E.g.: some are optimistic whereas some are
pessimistic
2. To understand individuals differences.

• No two people in an identical situation

behave in a same way.
• Helps us to deal with individuals
accordingly
3.To understand various internal processes
• Studying different human beings
• Helps people to understand internal processes of human being.

4.To understand why people work

• Some people work for money and
some for satisfying themselves
• Learning human nature teaches
how to motivate people and fulfill
their potentialities
5.To study the changes in the organization
• Helps us to bring a desired and voluntary change in the
organization and also in individuals.
6.Help organization and individuals in a mutually
accepted in the expected direction.
• Understand people and provide them with job
 Foundation of Human Nature
Primary and secondary dimensions of individual
differences

1. Primary dimension
• Personal characteristics have impact throughout our lives. For e.g.
showing authority.
• associated with prejudices or stereotypes.
2.Secondary dimension
• Characteristics that people acquire throughout their lives
• These include family, education, work style.
 Individual differences in modern
organization
• Concerned with basic differences
• Knowledge of an employee
• Modification of managers and to suit individual
abilities.
1. Differences in physique
• Physical character differs
2.Differences in achievement
• Differences in individual’s
interest ,skill and ability
3.Differences in intelligence
• An ability to learn, remember,
reciprocate of what one has
already learned.

4.Differences in interest
• Depending on culture, sex, social
environment individual’s have
different meeting
 Concepts of Human Behavior
• Human life is a
continuous process
• Culture, ethic, gender
identity helps us to
understand people
• People play active part
in creating their
experiences
• Every human being is
different yet the same
• Human behavior is
adaptive or mal-
adaptive
• Behavior is motivated
• Human beings are
biological
 Periods of human life span

•each stage the life

passes more or less
evenly until there is a
transition to a new stage.
•In every stage there are
difference experience
according to the
conditions.
 Different stages of a human life
1. Infancy (1-2 years)

2. Toddler (2-4 years)

3. Early school age (5-7 years)

4. Middle school age (8-12 years)

5. Early adolescence (13-17 years)

6. Later adolescence (18-25 years)

7. Early adulthood (25-30 years)

8. Middle adulthood (30-50 years)

9. Later adulthood (50 and up)

 Early ages
1. Infancy(1-2 years)
• First stage
• Surrounding the baby with care
2. Toddler (2-4 years)
• Prepares for the further life
• Builds its character, habits and skills for his
life ahead
 School age

3.Early school age

• Learning the basic way of communicating written or oral
• Gets acquainted with various subjects
4. Middle school age
• Not only being good in academics but also being good in as a human being
• Love people of different sex, age, etc
 Adolescence
5. Early adolescence 6. Later adolescence

• Confused of being a child or an adult • Completion of education and start in

• Physically changes takes place

their own independent way

 Adulthood
7.Early adulthood 8. Middle adulthood

• critical point is when a child is born

• young man and a lady decide to get
• Most responsible period
married

• adapting each other

 9. Later adulthood
• Work less, rest more
• Children leave their parent
home and they stay all alone
 Presented by -

Nandini Iyer 32
Divya Jain 33
Pratyusha 38
Kirti Kothari 44
Michelle Leon 48
Nupoor Mehra 52