111 research outputs found
Behavior in Organizations -9/E
Over the years we’ve taught untold thousands of college students not only facts in figures but, more importantly, how to be critical thinkers and impartial analysts of behavior in organizations. In so doing, we’ve also learned a great deal from them. By Listening care fully to their insights, drawing on their experience, and discussing the world of work with them we’ve come away with a strong sense of what they want to knowabout human dynamics in the work place. After all most of today’s student alrady have a held job, or are working while completing their studies, and chance are that they have given more thanpassing though to jobs they will be performing in the future. As it becomes apperent to students that knowing about the field of organitational behavior (OB) can provide valuableinsight into behavior on the job, we habee bee there to guide them
Solving the Mystery of Myelodysplasia
The author reviews key research on the biology underlying treatment response in myelodysplasia, including a new study inPLoS Medicine
Social comparison processes in organizations
We systematically analyze the role of social comparison processes in organizations. Specifically, we describe how social comparison processes have been used to explain six key areas of organizational inquiry: (1) organizational justice, (2) performance appraisal, (3) virtual work environments, (4) affective behavior in the workplace, (5) stress, and (6) leadership. Additionally, we describe how unique contextual factors in organizations offer new insight into two widely studied sub-processes of social comparison, acquiring social information and thinking about that information. Our analyses underscore the merit of integrating organizational phenomena and social comparison processes in future research and theory
'It's Reducing a Human Being to a Percentage'; Perceptions of Justice in Algorithmic Decisions
Data-driven decision-making consequential to individuals raises important
questions of accountability and justice. Indeed, European law provides
individuals limited rights to 'meaningful information about the logic' behind
significant, autonomous decisions such as loan approvals, insurance quotes, and
CV filtering. We undertake three experimental studies examining people's
perceptions of justice in algorithmic decision-making under different scenarios
and explanation styles. Dimensions of justice previously observed in response
to human decision-making appear similarly engaged in response to algorithmic
decisions. Qualitative analysis identified several concerns and heuristics
involved in justice perceptions including arbitrariness, generalisation, and
(in)dignity. Quantitative analysis indicates that explanation styles primarily
matter to justice perceptions only when subjects are exposed to multiple
different styles---under repeated exposure of one style, scenario effects
obscure any explanation effects. Our results suggests there may be no 'best'
approach to explaining algorithmic decisions, and that reflection on their
automated nature both implicates and mitigates justice dimensions.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing
Systems (CHI'18), April 21--26, Montreal, Canad
In Support of a Patient-Driven Initiative and Petition to Lower the High Price of Cancer Drugs
Comment in
Lowering the High Cost of Cancer Drugs--III. [Mayo Clin Proc. 2016]
Lowering the High Cost of Cancer Drugs--I. [Mayo Clin Proc. 2016]
Lowering the High Cost of Cancer Drugs--IV. [Mayo Clin Proc. 2016]
In Reply--Lowering the High Cost of Cancer Drugs. [Mayo Clin Proc. 2016]
US oncologists call for government regulation to curb drug price rises. [BMJ. 2015
Managing Behavior in Organizations
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A taxonomy of organizational justice theories
A taxonomy is presented that categorizes theories of organizational justice with respect to two independent dimensions: a reactiveproactive dimension and a process-content dimension. Various theories within each of the four resulting categories are identified. The implications of the taxonomy are discussed with respect to clarifying theoretical interrelationships, tracking research trends, and identifying needed areas of research. Stimulated by conceptualizations of justice in organizations by such theorists as Homans (1961), Adams (1965), and Walster, Berscheid, and Walster (1973), organizational researchers devoted considerable attention in the 1960s and 1970s to testing propositions about the distribution of payment and other work-related rewards derived from equity theory (for reviews, see Campbell &
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