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ISTD Diploma: Sample Chapters
ISTD Diploma has six main subjects. ISTD provides the content to the students in books. Here are the sample chapters from each of the books included with the Diploma.
Organizational Behavior Read the Excerpt ; Download the excerpt
Human Resource Development Read the Excerpt ; Download the excerpt
Manpower Planning and Training Read the Excerpt ; Download the excerpt
Training Methodology I Read the Excerpt ; Download the excerpt
Training Methodology II Read the Excerpt ; Download the excerpt
Evaluation of Training Read the Excerpt ; Download the excerpt
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Organizational Behavior
SECTION -1 UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
Although scientific and systematic study of human behavior is a recent phenomenon, the people of ancient time were also interested in understanding and predicting human behavior. Historical evidences indicated that the people of ancient periods had some crude, but significant knowledge about human behavior. Ancient literatures such as writing on ancient Egyptian Papyruses, or the Greeks or the Roman mythology based literature give many vivid descriptions of human behavior. The ancient Indian literature and other religious scriptures such as Puran, Bhagavat Gita, Upanishads. etc., gave us much insight about the human & knowledge and perception about human behavior. The ancient Indian art and sculptures also give much lighten the people's perception of human behavior at that time.
The philosophers dated as far back as to more than 2000 years back to the Middle Ages also showed interest in human behavior. The great Greek philosophers such as Hypocrites, Socrates, Aristotle, Plato and their contemporary thinkers enhanced our knowledge about how people at that time perceived human behavior.
It is a pervasive nature of individual that each of them wants to understand each other. In fact each of us, in one way or the other, is a student of behavior. We watch the behavior of others and attempt to study and interpret their actions. This tendency is not a modern phenomenon; rather people of all the times engaged themselves in interpreting others' behavior and actions. While observing and studying others behavior, we may not explicitly think about it, but we are covertly trying to understand others behavior always, throughout our life. While we watch what others are doing, we also try to explain why they have engaged in their behavior. Moreover, we attempt to predict what they might do under different sets of conditions.
Systematic study replaces intuition or those "gut feelings" about "why I do what I do" and "what makes others tick". Of course, a systematic approach does not mean that those things we have come to believe in an unsystematic way are necessarily incorrect. It has been observed that many of our belief based on intuition are later supported by substantive research findings. But there is lot of instances where it has been found that many of our popular beliefs and intuitive conclusions are not supported by research findings. The scientific evidence goes against our intuitive conclusions, or common sense generalizations.
It has been found on closer examination that many of our common sense views about human behavior are wrong. Moreover, what person considers "common sense" frequently runs counter to another person's version of "common sense". So, systematic analysis of individual behavior rather than commonsense approach is more desirable since the former increases or enhances our effectiveness in accurately explaining and predicting behavior.