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The future (and past) of work psychology and organizational behaviour: A personal view
This paper offers a personal and perhaps side-ways view on the past and future of two closely related semi-disciplines: work psychology and organisational behaviour. The paper first addresses the terminological confusion in the area and discusses 10 terms often used inter-changably. It then considers whether work psychology has been, or can ever be, neutral or disinterested in the way it is researched and applied. Some time is spent on the issue of definitions at the heart of which is the idea that behaviour at work is shaped by behaviour out of the work place and vice versa. In this sense all behaviour is work behaviour. The central part of the paper offers six criticisms of past and present work psychology (Ethnocentric and parochial, a-theoretical, a-historical, neglecting salient issues, offering more simplification than clarification, and a tendency to relativism or absolutism). It also offers seven criticisms of organizational behaviour (political correctness, anecdotes not data, no powerful theories, derivative methodology, confused identity, marketing issues and the problems it attacks). Despite these critiques the paper ends on an upbeat note pointing to three examples where progress has been, and is being made.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Management Revue ; ISSN: 1861-9916 ; Volume: 15 ; Year: 2004 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 420-436 ; Mering: Rainer Hampp Verlag
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Management
- Thema
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work psychology
organizational behaviour
critique
future
Arbeitspsychologie
Verhalten in Organisationen
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Furnham, Adrian
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Veröffentlichung
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Rainer Hampp Verlag
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Mering
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2004
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Beteiligte
- Furnham, Adrian
- Rainer Hampp Verlag
Entstanden
- 2004
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