In the middle of the 20th Century, researchers turned their attention from how leaders are, to what to what they do. With a suitable behavioral theory of leadership, we can more easily train leaders. They found the key concepts are task...

The video discusses psychologist Albert Bandura's social learning theory and his Bobo doll experiments, which proved that children can learn by observing others. The experiments showed that children often imitate the behavior of adults,...

What is Behavioral Approach to Leadership? The behavioral leadership theory focuses on how leaders behave, and assumes that these traits can be copied by other leaders. Sometimes called the style theory, it suggests that leaders aren't...

What is Behavioral Approach to Leadership? The behavioral leadership theory focuses on how leaders behave, and assumes that these traits can be copied by other leaders. Sometimes called the style theory, it suggests that leaders aren't...

In this video, Sapolsky's theory of human behavioral biology is explored, which claims that every behavior is a product of natural selection and biological processes in the brain. The complexity of understanding human behavior is...

What is Institutional Theory? In sociology and organizational studies, institutional theory is a theory on the deeper and more resilient aspects of social structure. It considers the processes by which structures, including schemes,...

What is House's Path Goal Theory (Situational Leadership)? Robert J. House, founder of Path-Goal theory, believes that a leader's behavior is contingent to employee satisfaction, employee motivation and employee performance. Path-Goal...

What is Institutional Theory? In sociology and organizational studies, institutional theory is a theory on the deeper and more resilient aspects of social structure. It considers the processes by which structures, including schemes,...

What is House's Path Goal Theory (Situational Leadership)? Robert J. House, founder of Path-Goal theory, believes that a leader's behavior is contingent to employee satisfaction, employee motivation and employee performance. Path-Goal...

What is Reinforcement Theory?

We are used to using a theory like VSEPR theory to predict molecular geometry, but unfortunately with coordination compounds, things are not so simple, because of those pesky d orbitals on the central metal atom. Crystal field theory is...

What is Attribution Theory? Attribution is a term used in psychology which deals with how individuals perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal. Models to explain this process are called Attribution...

What is Attribution Theory? Attribution is a term used in psychology which deals with how individuals perceive the causes of everyday experience, as being either external or internal. Models to explain this process are called Attribution...

As we all know, human beings tend to judge people based on their actions and tend to draw conclusions on people's personalities and inner character.

Attribution theory delves into this tendency and the process we follow when we...

What is Freudian Motivation Theory?

Social Learning Theory suggests that we learn not just by way of reward and punishment for actions, but instead we learn by observing others and imitating their behaviours. We watch, we copy, we practise. And one of the intriguing claims...

Douglas McGregor championed the Theory Y approach to leadership that assumed employees could enjoy work as much as they enjoyed play and that it was the leaders job to help bring out their best. This was a contrasting view to Theory X,...

John Goldthorpe and his colleagues offer us a sociological model of workplace motivation: Work Orientation Theory.



Goldthorpe's theory is culturally rooted in 1960s Britain. But I do think the principles underpinning it are...

What is Enactment Theory? Enactment theory goes be- yond the conventional scope of theories of action by acknowledging tiordances in the environment, needs of individuals and organizations, decision and preparation, motivation, planning...

What is Theory X? What is Theory Y?

What is Social Choice Theory? Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some...

What is Enactment Theory? Enactment theory goes be- yond the conventional scope of theories of action by acknowledging tiordances in the environment, needs of individuals and organizations, decision and preparation, motivation, planning...

What is Social Choice Theory? Social choice theory or social choice is a theoretical framework for analysis of combining individual opinions, preferences, interests, or welfares to reach a collective decision or social welfare in some...

We learned about ideal gases and the ideal gas laws, and we briefly touched on kinetic molecular theory, which puts these laws in context. But let's now go through this theory more rigorously, analyzing each postulate one at a time.