PSYCH238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Protestant Work Ethic, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Scientific Management
22 Nov 2017
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Psych 238: most people will work in organizations throughout their life, 74,000 hours spent working, experiment by [kay, wheeler, bargh, and ross] (2004) wanted to know the general concept of work (what do you associate the concept with) Particularly interest in competition (competitive behaviour and competitive thoughts) Compared neutral items and work items and found that competitive thoughts were significantly higher with work related objects vs the neutral items: experiment by [ferguson, perrewe, and whitten] (2011) Hostile supervision spillover work to family conflict crossover relationship tension lower family satisfaction. You can dream, create, design, and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality walt. Bad day at work, bad mood at home: crossover (ex. People matter because the small things they do cannot be imitated. The small things are more important than the big things.
