MGHB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2 & 13: Career Management, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Stress Management
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Learning a relatively permanent change in behaviour potential that occurs due to practice or experience. Reinforcement the process by which stimuli strengthen behaviours: reinforcer a stimulus that follows some behaviour and increases/maintains the prob. of that behaviour. Organizational errors involving reinforcement: confusing rewards with reinforcers. reward workers with things such as pay, promos, fringe benefits, paid vacay, etc. ^ rewards fail to serve as reinforcers do not make them contingent on specific behaviours of interest to the org. Not likely that $ will have a strong potential as a reinforcer doesn"t lead to desired behav: neglecting diversity in preferences for reinforcers. Orgs often fail to appreciate individual differences administered rewards for a desired behaviour fails to have a reinforcing effect. Better option is to assign more challenging tasks. Carefully explore possible range of stimuli under their control for their applicability as reinforcers for particular employees generational differences.
