Applied Mathematics 1413 Lecture Notes - Jack Welch
23 Sep 2012
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30 questions: agree, disagree, it depends/ too close to call. Interference with learning beliefs derived from prior experience. We may be motivated to believe particular things, for a variety of reasons (ego defense, preferred conclusions, etc). When we hear something inconsistent with our beliefs, we may be inclined to reject it. We never really know how representative our experiences our, therefore we should probably treat our beliefs about people at work as hypotheses, and constantly update them in light of new evidence. Private theories: our sense of how the world works commonsensical transparent may be falsified, but we don"t tend to do so, example: Rynes test: what is the gap between management beliefs/ practice and the best of what we know about managing people at work, from the social sciences, we"ll look at a subset of these questions now. Leadership: an extroverted personality is the key determinant of leadership effectiveness (3).
