Organizational Behavior: Analyzing Child Development Scenarios

This assignment explores child development through the lens of organizational behavior, analyzing four distinct scenarios. The first scenario focuses on a child's difficulty adapting to childcare, applying the theory of behaviorism to understand and address the child's resistance through the introduction of a toy to create a safe environment and facilitate transition. The second scenario examines a child struggling to form relationships due to her father's involvement with relatives, applying humanism to understand her feelings of being left out and suggesting strategies to strengthen their bond and address her emotional needs. The third scenario describes a child with strong communication and science skills, but lacking social skills, and focuses on collaboration to improve his social skills and curriculum activities, using social-cultural theory. The final scenario addresses a child with a medical condition, who misses school, and is struggling with socialization and the assignment suggests online methods to maintain connection and a focus on easy transition to avoid resentment, emphasizing the importance of socialization and humanism. The assignment applies psychological theories to real-world situations, offering practical solutions.

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Title: relationship with self
Scenario: Margot
Week 4
Rationale
This scenario is about a child who has issues adapting to child care after her mother
has returned to work. She is struggling to adapt to the caregiver. This scenario is focusing on
the theory of behaviorism. This refers to a situation of the understanding the behavior of
individuals (Watson, 2017). The purpose of this is to know how they react to a particular
change. This is to be able to be able to bring change in a way that individuals do not resist it.
The child in this scenario is having trouble adapting to the caregiver that her mother
brought her since she returned to work. This can be evident in the sense that she has refused
to eat or do anything active in the presence of the caregiver, but all other activities and also
playing with other children is okay with her. The theory of changing routine is therefore
applicable in this scenario. The wrong method was applied as the mother was transiting the
child from her care to that of the caregiver. The outcome of this is that the child is recanting
the transition.
The resource that would be most applicable here is an introduction of a particular item
such as a toy a child can play with. The reason as to why the child is refusing to eat is

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because she feels she's not in a safe environment. She feels she's not safe. Purpose of bringing
a toy is so as for ensuring the child thinks that she's in a safe environment .after the child
identified she's in a safe environment she will quickly adapt to being around the caregiver.
This resource should be applied as the parent is leaving. This is the best time because
as you bring in the toy while the parents are going the child is still feeling safe because of the
mother being present. When the child gets used to the new tool, she will now think that both
the parent and the toy plus the caregiver playing with the toy are all friendly. This will result
in a very swift transition because even if the mother leaves the child will still feel safe
because in the routine of development she was introduced to a new safer environment. This
resource is identifiable to positive behavior management of methods during the transition.
The habits of change should be applied in the transition stage of a child to bring a sense of
comfort to the child .when the right routine of using a toy so that the child feel safe was
applied the child was able to handle comfortable and adapted to the caregiver. This shows
behaviorism is supported by using good routine. If you understand behavior first before you
apply the change and then implement that change in the right routine the process of transition
will be efficient according to Baum (2017). This is because you will have understood the best
way to introduce that change.
Title: relationship with others

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Scenario: Janine
Week 4
Rationale
This scenario was about Janine. The problem was she's having a problem creating a
relationship with others. This is caused by the fact that her father was helping her cousins, so
she feels left out. This is the reason as to why she's failing to have a good relationship with
others at school. The principle this resource is focusing on is humanism. This refers to a
situation whereby a child physiological needs such as good care are not fulfilled entirely
because of some change in your family. ( Pilisuk and joy,2014).This can be due to divorce,
adopting another child and many other issues. This can result in turning your anger onto
others at school.
This theory is seen in this scenario. When Janine's uncle and aunt separated, her father
stepped up to help them; this caused Jennies to feel left out. This is because some of the
needs that she was being given before are not met fully because her father has other
responsibilities. This results in her having a bad relationship with her friends and teachers.
The resource that is most suitable in this scenario is trying to learn and maintain the
relationship. This is a situation whereby one seeks to understand one's relationship with
others and why it has changed and what can be done to maintain that relationship. This
particular resource can be applied when the child is in a happy mood. This is to avoid the
child having a negative attitude and in result lead to creating more humanism problem. This
can also be done at home because it is the environment in which the child is best comfortable

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in getting the best physiological love. This can bring a solution to the problem because you
will be able to find out what the problem is. This will result in the father fulfilling her
physiological needs in a balanced way. This will lead to the child feeling loved. This will, in
turn, change her relationship with her friends solving the solution. This will also make the
child feel reconnected with her father as before and cause her to change her attitude.
This solution will be applied when the child has just come out of school, taken a
shower and relaxed. When the child is relaxed and is a happy mood and as you are reading
her a bedtime story you start trying to find out the problem. This will lead to you knowing the
problem and the best solution you will apply to improve your relationship. This is
comparable to the concept of personal and social capability. This is a positive behavioral
concept of understanding oneself and also understanding others. The importance of this
behavior is to be able to know what problems others may have and what can be done to solve
this problem .it also tries to show us the importance of relating with others and we should
treat others well. The scenario showed once the father understood the child he was able to
improve the relationship. This also resulted in the child leading to changing her social
relationship. This showed understanding a child's behavior can have a significant impact on
their social relations according to Zipf(2016).
Title: Relationship with the curriculum
Scenario: Bertie

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Week; 5
Rationale
This scenario describes a kid named Bertie. He has excellent communication skills
and also very good at science. The problem comes in when he is not social and does not want
to associate with other kids. He is refusing to be social in any capacity. The principle in this
scenario is collaboration. This refers to a situation of doing an activity together or working
together. Cooperation in this scenarios is lacking. This can is evident when Bertie chooses to
partake in his activities alone. Such as the pencil and the paper activities.
The resource that is used to solve this problem is referred to as using social, cultural
theory. This is a situation whereby working as a group according to Sorokin(2017) This is
very important; it is the best type of learning as you will be able to learn more. This will help
in improving social skills; it helps that as you are undertaking a particular activity, you can
relate with others and build social relationships. It usually makes social skills because as you
were conducting that activity, you can connect as you share your ideas. The social skills
gained here will help in improving your collaboration activities. This is because this
experience will show you the need to relate to people and that need will enhance wanting to
do your event as a group.

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This resource can be introduced in a collaborative science activity. This is chosen
because it is what he likes. Therefore, he will have the interest of doing this activity. You can
also try and make him understand that working as a group on the activity is very good and it
makes one learn more activities. This will result in Bertie having to collaborate with others
because he is involved in an activity that he loves and he would not want to miss it. This will
cause him to relate to his friends. His friends will then use the theory of social culture to
make him learn good behaviors. He will also learn how to associate with friends. The result
of this activity will then improve his social skills, he will want to draw with his friends
because he will want to learn more this will enable him to apply his knowledge with others in
ideas with others, this will thus help him in improving his curriculum activities with his
friends .
This activity can be compared to the behavioral pattern of the importance of social
relationships. Social relationships will assist in learning more ideas and also sharing more
thoughts with your friends. This was also in the resource as Bertie was able to engage with
his friends as they were doing the activity he was able to want to share knowledge with his
friends. The advantage of social relationship is therefore seen in his changing collaboration
on his curriculum activities (Lewis, 2017).

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Title: enabling learning environment
Scenario: Michael
Week: 6
Rationale
This describes a scenario concerning a kid known as Michael. Michael has an illness
condition. His condition has to be treated at hospital meaning he has to miss school. This
results to him not relating with his peers. This has caused him to be resentful because of lack
of association with most of the community.
This scenario-focused on theories such as the importance of socialization;
socialization is the situation whereby you can associate with your age-mates take to them,
work with them and also play games with them. Lack of this socialization skills can bring
problems and cause you to change your attitude, and you do not want to associate with others
(Ely & Gleason,2017).
This can be observed in our scenario whereby Michael is not able to socialize with
his friends. This makes Michael feel very lonely. This, in turn, changes his behavior due to a
lack of association. This can be seen whereby he has become resentful. This is due to a lack
of socialization. The resource of solving this problem that can be applied here can be ways
such as the use of online methods such as the internet to maintain a connection; there should
also be a focus on easy transition once he comes back to class. The purpose of online

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methods will help you in continued socialization. An easier transition will help avoid
resentment
The idea of online interactions can be enhanced while Michael is getting his
treatment. He can interact with the classroom using video conference. He can chat using
social media such as Facebook while under medication. This will help him continue
socializing with friends even though he will still be at home. This will help him reduce the
fear of him feeling alienated from his friends and help him connect with his community.
When Michael is coming to school after getting the treatment, he should be welcomed by all
by his friends. This will help him feel loved by friends and not feel alone. This will have an
outcome of that he will to resent to his friends and will accept socializing with them.
This focuses on various theories such as always putting the social relationship before
academics. The importance of this if you can relate with students it will make your studies
easier as you will be able to socialize This can be seen due to lack of socialization
(Herrington, Reeves& Oliver,2014) Michael was recent to his studies. There is also focuses
on humanism. You must be able to feel your physiological needs met; this will help avoid
resentment. This can be seen whereby Michael due to lack of socialization, he was not feeling
loved, one of his physiological needs was not satisfied this would lead to him recently most
of his peers. This emphasizes the importance of having physiological needs satisfied.

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