What Factors that affect the behavior of individual?

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you're asking for but I'm taking an Organizational Behaviour course in school right now and one of the chapters that we went over discussed a little about factors that affect an individual's behaviour and this model is called the MARS model, which are four variables (that forms the acronym MARS) that directly influences voluntary individual behaviour and performance

o Motivation: the forces in a person that affects his/her direction, intensity and persistence of voluntary behaviour where

> Direction: what peopel choose to put effort into doing

> Intensity: how much effort one allocated to that task

> Persistence: how long you continue at that task

o Ability: one's aptitude and learned capabilities required to successfully complete a task

> Aptitude: the natural talents that could help employees learn specific tasks more quickly and perform them better

> Learned capability: the skills and knowledge that you have actually acquired (includes physical and mental skills)

o Role perception: how people understand their job duties (like what is assigned of them or expected by them)

> three components to this:

· understand the specific task (know the specific duties/consequences)

· understand priority of their various tasks and perform expectation

· when more than one way of doing tihngs is possible then the person shoudl understand the preferred behaviour to accomplish the task

o Situational factors: conditions beyond the employee's immediate control that constrains or facilitates behaviour and performance

> Situational characteristic: originate from external environment and cannot be controlled (consumer preference and economic conditions)

> Situational factors: controlled by people within the organization (time, people, budget and physical work facilities)

It is important to note that when any factors/variables in this model is low, then behaviour or performance will also be low.

McShane, Steven and Sandra Steen. (2009). Individual Behaviour, Personality, and Values. Canadian Organizational Behaviour(pp. 25-28). USA: McGraw Hill.