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Behavioral Management
Human Relations
List and describe the characteristics of behavioral management
Behavioral management, which is at times referred to as 'behavior modification' has the main goal of guiding and motivating individuals towards modifying or rather changing their actions or relations with respect to particular settings. Behavioral management can be employed by a wide number of professionals, employers and even parents in order to initiate rules against certain habits or alter habits that are not desirable. This approach has been observed to work not only on human beings, also on animals. Generally behavioral management can be described as a process eliminating behavior of undesirable nature while encouraging behavior which is considered to be appropriate thereby promoting order in a particular setting and creating an environment that is healthy for the operations there in.
Characteristics of behavioral management
Behavioral management is applied through various techniques, which may be categorized as either positive or negative, and it is important that those employing this approach have the positive behavioral management techniques. These positive techniques lead to the...
This is achieved by creating and posting the relevant rules to the employees or students. Such rules should be clearly understood and their meanings very easy to decipher to avoid any misunderstandings among the targeted group. There should be frequent reference to these rules in form of discussions and relating them to real life situations faced on a day-to-day basis. It is also very important for the persons concerned (students or employees) to be in a position of explaining the rules together with the related consequences when any is not adhered to.
After creating awareness with regard to desirable and undesirable behavior, then reward or punishment becomes the next important feature and this is covered by the accountability feature. It is crucial that before rewarding or punishing, a clear understanding of what is right or wrong is…
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