Talent Management Quarter

Human Development Quarter (hereinafter, the Quarter) is the first of four lectures of Operations Quadrivium (hereinafter, the Quadrivium):

• The Quarter is designed to introduce its learners to enterprise discovery, or, in other words, to concepts related to obtaining data needed to administer the enterprise effort; and
• The Quadrivium examines concepts of administering various types of enterprises known as enterprise administration as a whole.

The Quadrivium is the first of seven modules of Septem Artes Administrativi, which is a course designed to introduce its learners to general concepts in business administration, management, and organizational behavior.

Outline

The predecessor lecture is Human Decisions Quarter.

Concepts

• Shaping behavior. The process of guiding learning in graduated steps using reinforcement or lack of reinforcement.
• Diversity skills training. Specialized training to educate employees about the importance of diversity and teach them skills for working in a diverse workplace.
• Positive organizational scholarship. An area of organizational behavior research that concerns how organizations develop human strengths, foster vitality and resilience, and unlock potential.
• Resilience. An individual's ability to overcome challenges and turn them into opportunities.
• Sensitivity training. Training groups that seek to change behavior through unstructured group interaction.
• Social learning theory. A theory of learning that says people can learn through observation and direct experience.
• Social-learning theory. The view that we can learn through both observation and direct experience.
• Team building. High interaction among team members to increase trust and openness.
• Attitude. An evaluative statement or judgment concerning objects, people, or events.
• Attitude. An evaluative statement, either favorable or unfavorable, concerning objects, people, or events.
• Behavior. The actions of people.
• Behavioral component. That part of an attitude that refers to an intention to behave in a certain way toward someone or something.
• Behavioral component. The behavioral segment of an attitude that constitutes an intention to behave in a certain way toward someone or something.
• Discrimination. Noting of a difference between things; often we refer to unfair discrimination, which means making judgments about individuals based on stereotypes regarding their demographic group.
• Discrimination. When someone acts out their prejudicial attitudes toward people who are the targets of their prejudice.

Practices

The successor lecture is Social Communication Quarter.