Humanistic Psychology: Third Force Psychology
Instructions:
Conduct an internal and external environmental analysis, and a supply chain analysis for your proposed new division and its business model.
Create a SWOT table summarizing your findings. Your environmental analysis should consider, at a minimum, the following factors. For each factor, identify the one primary strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and trend, and include it in your table.
External forces and trends considerations:
Legal and regulatory
Global
Economic
Technological
Innovation
Social
Environmental
Competitive analysis
Internal forces and trends considerations:
Strategy
Structures
Processes and systems
Resources
Goals
Strategic capabilities
Culture
Technologies
Innovations
Intellectual property
Leadership
Write a synopsis of no more than 1,050 words in which you analyze relevant forces and trends from the list above. Your analysis must include the following:
Identify economic, legal, and regulatory forces and trends.
Critique how well the organization adapts to change.
Analyze and explain the supply chain of the new division of the existing business. Share your plans to develop and leverage core competencies and resources within the supply chain in an effort to make a positive impact on the business model and the various stakeholders.
Identify issues and/or opportunities:
Identify the major issues and/or opportunities that the company faces based on your analysis.
Generate a hypothesis surrounding each issue and research questions to use for conducting analysis.
Identify the circumstances surrounding each issue; classify the circumstances; attribute the importance of each classification; and test the accuracy of the importance for each classification.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Solution
Humanistic Psychology: Third Force Psychology
During the 20th century, psychology had two forces that neglected the crucial aspects of human existence. As such, scholars such as Abraham Maslow come up with what psychologists referred to as third force psychology. The salient principles encompassed in humanistic psychology include existential philosophy and romantic notions of humans (Hergenhahn & Henley, 2013). This essay will critically analyze the impact of humanistic psychology to the contemporary psychological perspectives at that time.
Psychologists at that time only focused on behaviorism and psychoanalytic concepts, but humanistic psychology came with a new perspective in which it asserted that human beings have a free will and as such, they are accountable for the type of behavior they depict. As such, humanistic psychologists focused on studying human behavior through phenomenology.
Humanistic psychology has received criticism as scholars assert that it equates to behaviorism based on concepts stipulated by Watson and Skinner while it ignores the vitality mental events as well as objective-oriented behavior. Furthermore, the significant contributions of humanistic psychology in the field of psychology entailed its argument that all aspects of humans must be investigated and that the psychological conception of science should be altered to cater for an objective study of salient human attributes. Arguably, humanistic psychology defines a healthy person as “self-actualizing”(Taylor, 2001) or fully functioning (Serlin, 2011).
Conclusively,
humanistic also emphasized on studying human behaviors in correlation with an
individual’s cultural, social, and gender context. Viewing an individual as a
whole defined the true meaning of humanistic psychology and it also made
psychologists define human behaviors with
the help of analyzing human attributes as well as the factors in the external
environment that predispose an individual
to behave in a particular manner.
References
Hergenhahn, B. R., & Henley, T. B. (2013). Humansitic Psychology (Third Force) Psychology. In An introduction to the history of psychology (7th ed., pp. 570–601). Belmont,CA, USA: Cengage Learning.
Serlin, I. (2011). The history and future of humanistic psychology. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 51(4), 428–431. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167811412600
Taylor, E. (2001). Positive Psychology and Humanistic Psychology: A Reply to Seligman. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 41(1), 13–29. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022167801411003
