Presented by: Jereline B.

Olivar, LPT
What is Human What is Social
Relations? Psychological?

A school of It is the scientific

organizational study of how people’s
thought which thoughts, feelings,
focuses on worker beliefs, intentions,
satisfaction, informal and goals are
workplace constructed within a
organizations, and a social context by the
means of influencing actual or imagined
employee interactions with
productivity. others.
 Cognitive &
Interpersonal
Perception

Three Social
Psychological
Approach

Symbolic Structural
Interactionism Social
Psychology
 Wilhelm Wundt (mid 19th Century) – Psychologist in Germany
is an area of research in social
psychology focuses on understanding how internal processes (cognitive)
affect an individual’s ability to interact with others
 The underlying basis of the cognitive and intrapersonal approach centers on
how individuals store information in the brain in the form of schemas. The
use of schemas allows individuals enables them to easily engage in
interactions.
 By George Herbert Mead and his students at the University of Chicago as well as the
work of pragmatic philosophers
 These ideas center on his discussions what makes humans uniquely social
creatures, how we become uniquely social creatures, and how our interactions
are affected by social institutions.
 The perspective of this focuses on studying the meanings that underlie social
interactions in terms of how they are created, how they are maintained, and how we
learn to understand such meanings.
 Therefore, to understand society, it is necessary to understand the interactions that
shape it and maintain it.
1. – it focuses how meanings are created and maintained
within social interactions with the self as the basis for such interactions. The underlying theme of this
approach is that individuals create and manage meanings through the roles and identities they hold.
2. - emphasizing the meanings themselves and how such
meanings reflect unstated normative expectations for interactions. The underlying theme of this
approach is that language, verbal and non verbal, represents the informal and formal rules and norms
that guide social interactions and structure society.
3. - in symbolic interactionism focuses on how humans learn the
meanings associated with interactions through out their lifetime and the stages that reflect such
learning processes. The underlying theme of this approach is that the norms, rules, and values that
guide interactions and shape society changethroughout individuals’ lives, especially as they move into
different social positions and environments.
 Structural social psychology assumes that social
actors are driven by rational concerns centered
on maximizing rewards and minimizing
punishments.
 Another related assumption is that interactions
based on rational calculations result in formally
structured individual, group, and institutional
interactions.
focuses on internal processes that impact whether, and how
successfully, interactions occur among people. The insights
provided by this perspective help to explain how actors create
meanings concerning interactions that then lead to the
creation and maintenance of specific social institutions and
organizations, as discussed by
Finally, examine how the
fluid interactions of symbolic life create formal group
structures that then impact on people’s interactions.
 : a school of organizational thought
which focuces on worker satisfaction, informal workplace
organizations, and a means of influencing employee productivity.

 It first came in the 1930’s

 HR Theory stresses on the Social & Emotional aspects of the
organization
 Focus on small groups & social norms within them, and
informal & unplanned pattern of behaviour.
 Accepts effiency & Productivity as the legitimate values
of an organization.
 Seeks to maximize efficiency & productivity through
elimination of dysfunctions.
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
 Self
actualization

Esteem

Belongingness
& Love

Safety

Physiological
 NO BEST WAY to motivate workers but management must be sensitive to variety of
needs

a. Needs change so motivation change.

b. Managers should be aware of the different needs & recognize the stage the
individuals have reached.
Thank You