Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Behavior and
Learning in
Organizations
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Customer Service at Singapore Air
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MARS Model of Behavior and Performance
Role
Perceptions
Motivation
Individual
Behavior and
Performance
Ability
Situational
Factors
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Employee Motivation
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Employee Ability
Natural aptitudes and learned capabilities
required to successfully complete a task
Competencies -- personal
characteristics that lead to
superior performance
Person-job matching
select qualified people
R
develop employee abilities M
through training BAR
redesign job to fit person's A
existing abilities S
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Employee Role Perceptions
Beliefs about what behavior is required to
achieve the desired results
Understanding what tasks to perform
Understanding relative importance of tasks
Understanding preferred behaviors to accomplish
tasks
R
M
BAR
A
S
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Situational Factors
Environmental conditions
beyond the individual’s short-
term control that constrain or
facilitate behavior
Time
People
Budget
Work facilities R
M
BAR
A
S
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Types of Work-Related Behavior
Joining the
Organization
Exhibiting Remaining
Organizational Types of with the
Citizenship Work-Related Organization
Behavior
Performing Maintaining
Required Work
Tasks Attendance
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Definition of Learning
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Behavior Modification
Law of effect
Likelihood that an operant behavior will be
repeated depends on its consequences
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A-B-Cs of Behavior Modification
Example
Employee Employee
Attendance
attends receives
bonus system
scheduled attendance
is announced
work bonus
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Contingencies of Reinforcement
Consequence No Consequence
is Introduced Consequence is Removed
Behavior
Increases/ Positive Negative
Maintained reinforcement reinforcement
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Schedules of Reinforcement
Behaviors
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Continuous
Fixed ratio
Variable ratio
Time (Days)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Fixed interval
Variable interval
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Behavior Mod at Nova Chemicals
© N. B. Scott
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Behavior Modification Limitations
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Learning through Feedback
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Multi-Source (360 Degree) Feedback
Supervisor
Project
Customer
leader
Co-worker
Evaluated Co-worker
Employee
Subordinate Subordinate
Subordinate
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Giving Feedback Effectively
Specific
Credible Timely
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Social Learning Theory
Behavioral modeling
Observing and modeling behavior of others
Learning behavior consequences
Observing consequences that others experience
Self-reinforcement
Reinforcing our own behavior with consequences
within our control
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Kolb’s Experiential Learning Model
Concrete
experience
Active Reflective
experimentation observation
Abstract
conceptualization
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Experiential Learning at CREST
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Developing a Learning Orientation
Reward experimentation
Recognize mistakes as
part of learning process
Encourage employees
to take reasonable risks Courtesy of CREST
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Action Learning
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