ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

Adult Ego State

Child Ego State
Life Script
Life Positions
 ADULT EGO STATE
 The Adult Ego State is oriented to current reality and the
objective gathering of information. It is organized, adaptable,
intelligent, and functions by testing reality, estimating
probabilities and computing dispassionately. It is not related to a
person's age.

 A person having adult ego views people equal, worthy of

undertaking any job and responsible. They behave rationally and
think logically. Physical signs can identify their behaviour, which
displays controlling type.
 People with adult ego, verify their behavior and update their parent and
child ego continuously. They block parent and child ego state based on
experience. The person updates data to determine what is valid thus he
controls emotional expression.

 Adult ego is considered to be valid ego state comparatively.

 CHILD EGO STATE
 A state in which people behave, feel and think similarly
to how they did in childhood. Child ego state is inner
feelings, experience and adaptation.
 Child ego can be perceived by observing an individual
who displays physical signs like silent compliance,
attention seeker in certain situations he displays temper,
tantrums, giggling and coyness. The individual thinks
non-logical and wants immediate action on various
issues.
 Natural Child: Natural child generally displays following behavioral pattern-
 Affectionate,
 Does what come in the way,
 Fearful,
 Self-indulgent,
 Self-centered
 Aggressive
 Adaptive child: Adaptive child is psychologically trained in obeying
instructions from parents though not to his liking and does whatever because
parents insist to do so.
 The little professor: The little professor is intuitive, creative and manipulative.
He believes in magic and uses this ego state with adult ego state and achieves
good interpersonal relationship.
 LIFE SCRIPT

 Script is a life plan, directed to a reward.

 Script is decisional and responsive; i.e., decided upon in
childhood in response to perceptions of the world and as a
means of living with and making sense of the world. It is
not just thrust upon a person by external forces.
 Script is reinforced by parents (or other influential figures
and experiences).
 Script is for the most part outside awareness.
 Script is how we navigate and what we look for, the rest of
reality is redefined (distorted) to match our filters.
 LIFE POSITIONS

Child develops life philosophy by experience. As child grows he tries

to develop philosophy for itself based on self-identity, sense of
worth and an ability to perceive people in the right sense.

I am not ok, you are ok I am ok, you are ok

(Therefore the best I can do is to get (Therefore you and me can get on
away from others or hide myself) with being open with each other)
DEPRESSIVE POSITION GOOD LIFE POSITION

I am not ok, you are not ok I am ok, you are not ok

(Therefore there is no hope. I can (Therefore I best get rid of you to be
never be ok nor could you give me ok)
what I need)
FUTILE POSITION PARANOID POSITION
 The above diagram is called "The OK Corral" by Franklin Ernst. It
shows the four basic life positions we can assume: 
1) "I am ok, you are ok," which is short for "I am ok with myself and
with you too." 
2) "I am ok, you are not ok," short for "I am ok, but I can't rely on or
trust you. I feel there is something wrong with other people around
me."
3) "I am not ok, you are ok," short for "There is something
fundamentally wrong with me, but everybody else is ok." 
4) "I am not ok, you are not ok," short for "There is something
fundamentally wrong with me and other people are unreliable,
untrustworthy, wrong in some way too."
It's easy to see that the best place to come from is "'I am ok, you are
ok!"