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Behavioral Economics of Intrinsic Motivation

Jeff Monday has a very interesting way of describing intrinsic motivation. You can find the transcript...

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Social Learning Theory

You learn all the time. In organizations learning is necessary to improve performance. That works as long as people are motivated to improve, to develop their practical and interpersonal skills. Social learning is a free form of learning based on interaction with and observation of the others. The decision to learn at work is taken...

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Biases in perception

Bias … a word that ranges from tendency to prejudice.  Some of the most common biases studied in organizational behavior are: Primacy effect – the first impression, quick to appear but it last long. It is the main people selection tool that you use everyday. Try not to judge employees or employers based on that. You...

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Social Loafing

A team justifies its existence only if it brings added value through numbers. That means if 1+1=3. An employee has the tendency to ‘free-ride”. It is human nature. Social loafing is an organizational behavior of an employee that makes less effort in a team compared with the way he behaves next to an individual task. The...

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Business organizational structure

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Maya Angelou I have learned in time to treat a company as a living organism that is always sick. Rarely did I see a company that was healthy. And once in a blue moon I got a chance to exchange a few words with it. Why?...

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Did you know?

Did you know that employees are not mindless robots, a resource that you can dispose of and quantify in a turnover rate statistics? Of course you knew! If you are an employer, you will tell it to the world … and do nothing about it. … while there is nothing wrong with capitalism, there is something definitely mistaken...

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