Management, organization and human nature:an introduction

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It is quite difficult to understand the human nature and therefore groups of humans such as organizations are also difficult to understand. The different fields of study relating to human nature such as anthropology, psychology and economics are acknowledging that an understanding of how people think, feel and behave individually and in groups entails a grasp of evolved human nature. Advances in the understanding of evolved human nature embodied in the emerging discipline called evolutionary psychology and how these advances may further the understanding of management and organization are analyzed.

Social aspects, Management, Corporations, Industry, Industries

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Seven deadly syndromes of management and organization: the view from evolutionary psychology

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The evolving field of study called evolutionary psychology primarily concerns itself with two notions, namely, the idea of evolved and unchanging human nature and the co-evolution of social institutions. Many of the persisting issues of organizational life emanate from flaws in the compromise between psychological and economic imperatives. These factors interact in many common ways, seven of which are analyzed, to produce outcomes which are damaging to organizations and their employees. How the creation of some new forms of organizations may avoid these dysfunctional flaws is also discussed.

Psychological aspects, Organizational behavior

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Women and taxis and dangerous judgments: content sensitive use of basic-rate information

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It has been argued that people generally tend to ignore base rate or prior information in a hypothesis which conflicts with Bayesian reasoning regarding the subject. This argument is controversial. A study was therefore conducted to test whether or not base rate information is more likely to be used when the object of such information is a type of human instead of some non-human object. The study confirms observations that when the object about which the base rate information is given is about known 'types' of human beings, base rate information is more likely to be used.

Decision-making, Decision making, Women, Economics, Information theory, Judgment, Judgment (Psychology), Human information processing, Decision theory, Information theory in economics

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