Philosophy 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Criterion Validity, Harvard Business Review, Causal Inference
9 Feb 2013
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Owl email : write down your name/email. Listing of topics: last class, today. Why do we need research: research in i/o aims to systematically and scientifically answer a question about work, without doing research we may not fully understand how to optimize organizational performance, decision making, job design, etc. Why do we need research: saves organizations money, can help create optimal conditions/inform practice, useful for understanding things in everyday life. E. g. advertising, vitamins, etc: findings often contradict common sense. Methods they are most skilled in applying. The conscious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making business decisions. : in simple terms: the practice of making business decisions based on what the available research evidence supports. Evidence based approaches: an illustration from medical research, a number of valuable lessons here, will discuss a number of these concepts today, http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=h4mhbkw.
