The Psychological Approach to Employment Consulting and Business Success. Conscious consulting

In most cases, workplace interactions resemble perfect laboratory type conditions to asses, determine or witness psychological experiments, or to see all kinds of behaviors occur right before our eyes. The physical conditions, stress, interactions, and over all ambiance of any company that is shared collectively by people that spend more time at the job than at home, create interesting trends and reactions that must be understood and appreciated by every human resource and legal specialist with substantial exposure to employment issues.

The breadth and depth of psychological and psychosocial behaviors and patterns in the workplace is as diverse and profound as the unique makeup and extent of each individual. Nevertheless, seldom have we psychologically seen and studied the workplace as a separate entity with identifiable existence, behaviors, patterns and thereafter foreseeable and predictable reactions.

As a brief introductory note, legally this separation between entity and individual has had a clear dichotomy since roman Law. Ultimately, the beholder of legal personality (needed to enter into agreements) is called a person, and there are two kinds of persons in the legal world which are studied and treated separately: 1) Natural which are individuals who acquire personhood upon birth and 2) judicial persons such as corporations which acquire personhood upon incorporation and which are referred too, studied, claimed against and seen as different from all of the individuals that conform it. This ancient and clear distinction allows everyone to understand and navigate the legal world whilst dealing with persons and entities separately (it’s a distinction that we are so accustomed too, that one might never even stop to think about).

Nonetheless, psychologically it might be overlooked with more regularity that all entities (apart from the individuals that create them) likewise have a psychological buildup and baggage that determine a lot in terms of success or failure in relation with business, productivity, managerial and human relations, accolades or over all social recognition. Similar to individuals, all entities are made up of cultural, behavioral and natural traits that create the end product that will allow a company to thrive or fail in an economic model and capitalistic environment that in most cases implies a never ending go go go devotion that could be considered maddening at best. Industrial or occupational psychology as an...

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