MGT 304 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Hawthorne Effect, Rationality

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Management
• Course: MGT 304
• Professor: Linda Neider

Document Summary

Study of individuals and their behaviors at work. Hawthorne effect: positive responses in attitudes and performance when researchers pay attention to a particular group of workers (dimmed lights example) Most common variable in ob: quantity of units. Study of how people interact in groups. The ability to translate research to practice. Rationality: rely on reason rather than emotion, require evidence, ignore no known evidence, and follow it where it leads, more concerned with finding best explanation than being right, asking questions, analyzing apparent confusion. Self-awareness: weigh the influences of motives and bias, recognize own assumption, prejudices, biases, or point of view. Honesty: recognize emotional impulses, selfish motives, nefarious purposes, or other modes of self-deception. Open-mindedness: evaluate all reasonable inferences, consider variety of possible viewpoints or perspectives and stay open to different interpretations, accept new explanations or models because they explain the evidence better, don"t reje(cid:272)t unpopular (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s out of hand.