A Goal-Directed Model for the Design of Human Performance Systems
A Behavior systems perspective is employed to guide development of a goal-directed model for the design of human performance systems presented in this article. The goal-directed model is discussed in...
View ArticleComments on the Dissemination of Behavioral Technology
I Agree with essentially all Shimamuune (1996) has said concerning the dissemination of behavioral technology. Furthermore, I think his observations are insightful and nontrivial; and the...
View ArticleA Review of The Courage Factor: Living People-Based Leadership by E. Scott...
Give this book to anyone you want to turn on to behavioral approaches to safety. OverviewI planned to skip the fictionalized, illustrative story line and just skim for the authors’ main instructional...
View ArticleMaintenance of Interventions: The Behavioral Research Supervisory System
E-Mail From Nadia Mullen Hello You may recall my contacting you previously about your studies in JOBM but in case you don't, I am a student at the University of Otago in New Zealand, completing my...
View ArticleConceptual Behavior Analysis
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by lust for the straight semi-log transform, drilling ever deeper into the void of free-operant chaos, who floating across everyday life, attempted to...
View ArticleThe EO in OBM
Olson, Laraway, and Austin (2001) propose an increased emphasis on the establishing operation in organizational behavior management. Their proposal raises interesting questions about theory, science,...
View ArticleWhat OBM Needs is More Jewish Mothers
E. Scott Geller’s main problem is that he’s a mentalist in behavior-analyst clothing. And his main virtue is that he’s a mentalist in behavior-analyst clothing. I disagree with everything Geller (2002)...
View ArticlePower in Organizations
This critique of Goltz and Hietapelto’s operant model of power suggests: * The definition of power and leadership are too narrow. * Powerful leaders rarely manage performance through operant...
View ArticleTrait-based Personality Theory, Ontogenic Behavioral Continuity, and Behavior...
Behavior analysts can and should but rarely do account for the ontogenic continuity of behavior, thus leaving the field open to the reified, biological-deterministic traits of personality theorists....
View ArticleAchieving the Positive Life Through Negative Reinforcement
Based on the three-contingency model of performance management, I make the following argument: (1) Often, we fail to behave as we should because the natural contingencies supporting appropriate...
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