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What is one of the major challenges organizations face today?
Which factor is primarily emphasized as a concern for today's organizations?
Which historical event is mentioned as a challenge impacting today's organizations?
What is a key focus for management professors and practitioners regarding contemporary organizations?
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What aspect of management is highlighted as increasingly difficult in the current environment?
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What management approach led to performance benefits according to the researchers?
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How are employees viewed in the context of organizational behavior as mentioned in the research?
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What is referred to as 'social capital' in the text?
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What does 'positive psychological capital' encompass?
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What has research shown about investing in human capital?
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Which operational initiatives did not yield performance benefits according to the findings?
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What are the main elements that contribute to 'human capital'?
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What are the implications of recognizing employees as 'human capital'?
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What is a key characteristic of the one-eighth organizations mentioned?
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What is one of the five sources preventing effective implementation of management strategies?
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What term describes the approach that integrates evidence into management practices?
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Which of the following is NOT listed as an obstacle to effective management implementation?
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According to the content, what benefit do organizations gain if they can overcome the identified obstacles?
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Which of the following organizations is mentioned as a one-eighth organization?
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What is the term used to describe the gap between knowledge and action in management?
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Which of the following is a goal for organizations utilizing evidence-based management?
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What is the primary focus of a strong theory in organizational behavior?
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According to the discussion on theories, what can lead to theories becoming self-fulfilling?
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What challenge do scientists face when developing theories?
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What does the relationship between theory and research in management imply?
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What do Sutton and Staw argue is not a component of true theory?
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What does effective theorizing require, according to the discussion?
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What potential risk is associated with widely accepted theories in management?
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What do strong theories participate in explaining?
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What has been the primary focus of psychological articles published since the 1970s?
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Which of the following units of analysis is traditionally dominated by the cognitive approach?
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Who are the primary founders of the behavioristic approach in psychology?
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What research development has sparked renewed interest in organizational behavior?
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What does the stimulus-response (S-R) explanation focus on in human behavior?
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Which psychological approach emphasizes the importance of observable behaviors?
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What chapter in the framework discusses behavioristic theory in detail?
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Cognitive approaches in organizational behavior include an emphasis on which of the following concepts?
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Study Notes
Management Challenges
- Today’s organizations face a multitude of challenges
- Major challenges include recovery from the Great Recession and dangerous geopolitics
- At the organizational level, understanding global competition and diversity, solving ethical problems and dilemmas are at the forefront
Human Capital vs Human Resources
- Researchers have found that investing in human capital through extensive training and techniques like empowerment results in performance benefits.
- In the past, employees were viewed as a cost, then human resources, and now are increasingly being recognized as "human capital"
- Human capital encompasses the knowledge, education, experience, and skills of employees.
- Investing in this human capital leads to desired performance outcomes such as increased productivity and profits, even during challenging economic conditions.
- Social capital (who you know) and positive psychological capital (who you are) are more recently recognized concepts beyond human capital.
Evidence-Based Management
- Organizations need to implement evidence-based management (EBM) to achieve sustained success.
- EBM employs research findings and documented practices from successful organizations.
- Many managers understand the importance of human capital and how to implement strategies for improved performance, yet they fail to do so.
- Five obstacles to effective implementation and sustainability identified are hollow talk, debilitating fear, destructive internal competition, poorly designed complex measurement systems, and mindless reliance on precedent.
The Importance of Theory in EBM
- Strong theory in organizational behavior delves into underlying processes to understand the reasons for a particular occurrence or nonoccurrence.
- Theory and research go hand in hand in evidence-based management.
- Theories are ever-changing on the basis of empirical results.
- Theories can become self-fulfilling without empirical verification.
The Cognitive Approach
- The cognitive approach has traditionally dominated units of analysis such as personality, perception, and attitudes, motivation and goal setting, and positive constructs like psychological capital in the field of organizational behavior.
- Social cognition is a unifying theoretical framework encompassing both cognition and behaviorism.
The Behavioristic Framework
- The behavioristic framework in psychology stresses the importance of dealing with observable behaviors rather than the mind.
- Classical conditioning experiments were used to formulate the stimulus-response (S-R) explanation of human behavior.
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Explore the various challenges organizations face in today's complex environment, including recovery from economic downturns and the importance of understanding global competition. Additionally, delve into the evolution of human resources into human capital, emphasizing the significance of investing in employee training and development for enhanced performance.
