You will prepare and submit a term paper on Social Psychology in the Real World. Your paper should be a minimum of 2750 words in length.

Most academics have commented that social psychology’s very survival and usefulness are subject to its practical applications and relevancy to the population targeted for study. In fact, most of the history of this field has been taken as one of academic self-interest, which has come at the expense of tackling existing and real needs. Therefore, with so many pressing issues in the real world, academics can hardly afford to engage in academic debate sans tackling real issues. Social psychology is increasingly being evaluated on the basis of its practical usefulness, which has added to frustration about its lack of apparent contribution to issues in the real world, especially given its ability to offer a lot more to society.

The very nature of social psychology is the study of social processes and individuals, meaning it can increase knowledge about real-world problems and issues immensely (Tuffin, 2013). Particularly, the emphasis on human development in philosophical circles gives social psychology the unique opportunity to impact real-world problems.The real world can be defined as the practical world in which we live, rather than the academic or intellectual world. It is the realm of actual or practical experience, instead of an idealized, theoretical, or abstract sphere of the lecture hall, classroom, or academic discussions (Baron & Branscombe, 2012).

It is within this world that social psychology must make a meaningful impact in order for it to improve the realm of human development. Social psychology can be defined, on its part as the scientific study regarding how the behaviors, feelings, and thoughts of people are impacted by the implied, imagined, or actual presence of other people. Using this definition, the term scientific is referent to investigations through the use of empirical means. Behaviors, feelings, or thoughts, on the other hand, are inclusive of those variables of psychology that can be measured in man.

In&nbsp.addition, the implication of the presence of other people being implied or imagined is suggestive of the fact that humans are open to social influences in the absence of other people.

Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Hovey and Beard Company. It needs to be at least 750 words. The Hovey and Beard Company Case presents us with a job design of a painting process which demonstrates errors in the design of the job by engineers which resulted into inevitable problems at work (John, Robert and Michael, 2010). The fact that the hooks were designed to move in a continuous array in front of the painters without a method of regulating them indicates problems with job design. However it can be argued that the calculation of the time that each painter was given before the hook would fall out of reach shows that the engineers were aimed at ensuring that the job was designed well to meet the demands of the job. In this scenario, trainee painters are expected to make more errors especially with the timing of the hooks and thus decreasing their productivity. The reinforcement theory is used within the Hovey and Beard Company Case as illustrated by the training bonus that the trainee painters are given. The aim of this bonus is to enable the trainee to meet the gap in productivity which would result from lack of skills and experience in the job. The job was designed in a way that the trainees were expected to be skills at the end of six months when the training bonus was withdrawn (John, Robert and Michael, 2010). The contribution of the reinforcement theory to job performance is to motivate employees to improve their performance in the job. In the Hovey and Beard Company Case, the training bonus was reduced gradually as a way of reinforcing the motivation of the painters to improve their performance so that by the end of the six months they were able to perform normally without mistakes and thus enable the efficiency of the job to be enhanced. The problems that were observed in the second month of the training in the Hovey and Beard Case can be attributed to poor reinforcement and thus less motivation by the supervisors. The job design would have been wrong leading to many of the hooks falling out of the range of the painter (John, Robert and Michael, 2010). However, it can be argued that the engineers increased the rate at which the hooks moved because they expected the efficiency of the painters to have improved by the second month. The complaints of the painters that the hooks were too fast would also demonstrate that the supervisors expected unrealistic improvement of performance by the painters in the second month. Question 2 The performance diagnosis model is a tool that is used to define problems that result in the performance of tasks of a specific job. The diagnosis performance model aims at identifying the desired levels of employee performance in the execution of various processes of a job. Secondly, the model is important in the identification, specification and implementation of the most appropriate intervention of improving the employee performance so that the problems at the work place are solved with effectiveness (Stahl, 1997). In the Hovey and Beard Company case, some employees quit because of the high expectations of performance which they would not cope with. The replacement of the employees with new ones caused even worse problems. This illustrates inappropriate application of the performance diagnostic model by the supervisors. The supervisors replaced the employees with new ones because they thought that it was the most appropriate intervention for the problem.