The World of Work and Personal Life

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The World of Work and Personal Life
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Human Relations

• The art of using systematic knowledge about human
  behavior to improve personal, job and career
  effectiveness.
• We study human relations to improve our personal
  relationships both on and off the job.

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Work and Personal Life

• Close relationship between job satisfaction and
  life satisfaction
• Influence each other

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The New Economy
Globalization
Changing Technology
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Workplace Diversity
Social Expectations
The New Economy
Entrepreneurial Spirit
Customer Satisfaction
Privatization
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The New Organization

• Downsizing
• Empowerment
• Teamwork
• Social responsibility
• Flexible work schedule

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The New Employee
Multiple Skills
Continual retraining
Lack of Permanence
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Human Relations Begins With Self

• General information about human behavior
• Informal feedback from people
• Feedback from superiors
• Feedback from coworkers

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What you think of you

• Self concept- the way a person thinks about
  himself or herself in an overall sense.

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Self Concept and Self Confidence

• A strong self concept leads to self confidence
• Confident people make better leaders

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Self Esteem

• Self esteem- the experience of feeling competent
  to cope with the basic challenges in life and of
  feeling worthy of happiness

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Enhancing Self Esteem

• Goal achievement
• Awareness on strengths
• Dont beat yourself up
• Associate with positive people

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Benefits of studying Human Relations

• Acquiring valuable information about human
  behavior
• Developing people skills
• Helping to deal with job and personal problems
• Capitalizing on opportunities

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The Law of Esprit

• Living life with joy, the emotion evoked by
  well-being.
• Where do you find joy?

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People become really quite remarkable when they
start thinking that they can do things. When they
believe in themselves they have the first secret
of success.- NORMAN VINCENT PEALE