Social Cognitive theory factors in application to the Grand UK Holidays case study

Social Cognitive theory factors in
application to the Grand UK
Holidays case study

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Social Cognitive Theory..............................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Social cognitive theory describes that portion of knowledge that individual observes get
influenced by social interactions of individual, experiences and outside media influences of
individual. Social cognitive theory was advanced by Albert Bandura as an extension of learning
theory. According to Bandura learning takes place in social context with dynamic and reciprocal
interaction of people, environment and behaviour. This essay will examine social cognitive
theory factors and application to the case of Grand UK Holidays, a tour company that specialises
in escorted tours for elderly and was started in 1983. The case study is in two parts one is related
to training of employees in organisation and another is coach tours.
MAIN BODY
Social Cognitive Theory
This theory focuses on importance of observing, modelling and imitating behaviours,
attitudes and emotional reactions of others. This theory suggests how environmental and
cognitive factors interact for influencing behaviour of individuals in relation with learning
(Schunk and DiBenedetto, 2020). This theory states reciprocal relationship of factors that are
personal, environmental and behavioural in which each factor influence other factor and get
influenced by other factor and this interaction of these factors is called construct that is called
Reciprocal Determinism.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
Social Cognitive Theory and its Application on Grand UK Holidays........................................2
Personal factors............................................................................................................................3
Environmental Factors.................................................................................................................3
Behavioral Factors.......................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
Books and Journal........................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Social cognitive theory is learning theory which has been proposed and developed by Albert
bandura providing that learning of an individual is depended on the imitating modelling and
observation of the behaviors emotional reactions and attitudes of others in the organization. And
UK holiday is a tour company which is completely dependent on the experience of their
customers in the organization and known for its specialization in escorted tours (Alisic, and
Wiese, 2020). The company is well known for their services and when several awards for the
same. This report is going to explain about the social cognitive theory which is applicable in the
grant UK holidays with the help of several factors which are involved in the social cognitive
theory. This report is also contains the personal factors environmental factors and behavioral
factors which is a part of social cognitive theory and its impact on the employees of Grand UK
holidays.
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Social Cognitive Theory and its Application on Grand UK Holidays
Social cognitive theory is a theory which helps an organization to define the influence of
personal, environmental and behavioral factors on the health behaviors of an individual. This
theory helps an organization to provide them chances to get social support with the help of
instilling expectations and utilizing observational learning so that they can achieve the behavior
change of the employees for their effective learning. Grand UK holidays this required to provide
training to their new as well as old staff for preparing them for the spring and summer tools. This
training requires an organization to create an effective training session so that they can be able to
provide different training to the managers, care staff, drivers and administration. Social cognitive
theory helps the company to identify several factors which has its impact on the behavior of
individuals working in the organization. Grand UK Company has found that both existing staff
and new staff is not happy with their training sessions due to several different reasons. New staff
is frustrated with the training because of the work in the training as they did not expect that they
are required to take responsibilities of elder tourist. Whereas the existing staff is is frustrated due
to reputation of the training that they already knew due to the previous training. It is essential for
the organization to identify their social cognitive behavior and learning capabilities so that
effective training sessions can be provided to them (Collins, and et. al, 2019). Social cognitive