Cumulatively large benefits of incrementally small intervention effects: costing metacontingencies of chronic absenteeism

Article Abstract:

A study demonstrated the importance of estimating cumulative benefits and costs of organizational behavior management interventions when intervention effects are small using data from an operant based intervention which produced an immediate small increase in employee attendance. Findings suggest that a combination of interventions can be introduced to balance potentially conflicting effects of interventions in organizations. Performance, safety and profitable operations are company objectives which are not necessarily incompatible.

Worker absenteeism, Absenteeism (Labor), Operant behavior, Operant conditioning

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Speed and accuracy of data analysts' behavior using methods of equal interval graphic data charts, standard celeration charts, and statistical process control charts

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A study investigated the issue of the influence of data handling methodology in the speed and accuracy of intervention identification among organizational behavioral management experts that are presented with data from N = 1 time series experiments. Findings clearly underscore the critical role played in determining conclusions drawn from field experimental data by the establishment of good baseline data prior to interventions.

Usage, Organizational research, Methodology, Research methods

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Improving the management of overtime costs through decentralized controls: managing an organizational metacontingency

Article Abstract:

The use of overtime is costly, in both monetary and human terms, to an organization. Overtime use can be thought of as a survival-related metacontingency, and its presence can negatively affect an organization's viability. Numerous organizational attempts to reduce overtime costs while improving or maintaining staffing are chronicled. Socially valid issues such as quality of services rendered are left unanswered.

Wage Administration, Compensation management, Overtime

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