How Understanding Social Psychology Helps Organisations

http://www.ascent2change.co.uk It's the penultimate day of my 30 day video blog challenge and I talk about the other side of the equation - the 'right' bus. Understanding individual personality is important and natural in making sure that you only allow the right people on your bus; you also need to understand what might happen when they interact with other people in your organisation.

We are all hard wired to respond to certain stimuli, particularly when we socialise with other people in groups - that's how we've evolved and survived. Social psychology probably plays at least a 50% role in understanding human behaviour in organisations. Organisation culture is an accessible way of making sense of these hard wired group behaviours which need to be factored in to any strategy and activity around talent if it's to be successful. Very often it's the tangible aspects of culture that are considered rather than the deep rooted funadmentals of how culture and social groupings form and behave.

For me, this is one of the reasons why talent management in any organisation is so fascinating

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