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Organizational Behaviour: Text and Cases
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Organizational Behaviour: Text and Cases

by Kavita Singh
May 2024
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
500 pages
30h 14m
English
Pearson India
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CHAPTER 8: ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION
Personality
A
Adult
C
Child
P
Parent
Figure 8.4
Human Personality
Comprising of Three
Ego States
Ego States
According to TA, all people have, in di ering degrees, three ego states—Parent, Adult, and
Child. As Berne (1964) states, “Although we cannot directly observe these ego states, we
can observe behaviour and from this infer which of the three ego states is operating at that
moment.”  e three ego states are shown in Figure 8.4.
e parent ego state is an emotional state in which people unconsciously mimic the
behaviour of parents, older siblings, teachers, and persons providing early religious experi-
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