Psychological Corollary

A person who is friendly and cooperative will be evaluated positively by others.

Lesson Objective

Students will describe how friendly and cooperative behavior contributed to a positive evaluation. For example, employees who are friendly and cooperative are valued by employers.

Social Behaviors

This lesson shows students that successful people:

• behave with self-confidence
• desire success
• are friendly
• do their share the work
• recognize the importance of effort
• appreciate the value of learning new skills

Other Vocabulary

• permanent
• customers

Suggested Lesson Plans

Introduction

• Ask students to define human relations.
• Have students list behaviors that promote good human relations (e.g., being friendly, cooperative, and polite).
• Ask students to brainstorm a list of jobs they might work in. Include work in an auto body repair shop on the list.
• Have students rate each occupation as one in which good human relations skills are:
• very important,
• important,
• somewhat important, or
• not important at all.
• Introduce vocabulary

Group Use of Student Workbook

Part I: Ask students to read Part I of the play, "People Pleasers," and complete and discuss exercises that follow Part 1.

• Ask students if they would expect the owner of an auto body shop to care about the human relations skills of his or her employees. Discuss students' answers.
• Have students explain how Mr. Jackson benefits if his workers can successfully communicate with customers and other workers (e.g., customers are more satisfied and more likely to come back, and workers get along better and are more productive).

Part II: Ask students to read Part II of the play.

• Have students list the reasons Mr. Jackson gave for offering Andy the permanent job.
• Have students complete the exercise at the end of the worksheet. Ask students to share their cartoons or dialogues.

Follow - Up

• Using the list of occupations developed in this lesson's introductory activity, have students:
• Eliminate those in which human relations skills are of obvious importance.
• Reexamine those classified as occupations in which human relations skills are only a little important or not important.
• Determine if human relations skills are truly not important in these occupations.
• Decide if human relations skills are unimportant in any occupation.

Review

• Ask students to identify behaviors and attitudes that would lead to a positive evaluation by others (e.g., being a good listener, being friendly, being cooperative, and being able to communicate one's thoughts and ideas).
• Ask students to describe how a friendly and cooperative attitude would contribute to a positive evaluation on the job (e.g., if you get along well with customers, they are more likely to come back, and your boss would look favorably on this).