Increasing Seating Opportunities Using a Behavioral Prompt

Motivating Operations in theJournal of Organizational Behavior Management:Review and Discussion of Relevant Articles

“…Other Mueller et al (2001) "Another possible explanation of the results is that the sign functioned as an establishing operation (EO; Michael, 1982)" (p. 106).…”

The Effects of Task Clarification, Visual Prompts, and Graphic Feedback on Customer Greeting and Up-selling in a Restaurant

“…For example, only three studies Crowell, Anderson, Abel, & Sergio, 1988;Wilson, Boni, & Hogg, 1997) have examined task clarification separate from other intervention components. In addition, only a few studies (Austin et al, 1993;Miligan & Hantula, 2005;Mueller, Moore, Tingstrom, & Doggett, 2001) have examined the effects of visual prompts in isolation. Finally, although the use of feedback is ubiquitous in the OBM literature, Alvero et al (2001) found that only 31% of feedback articles published in JOBM between 1985 and 1998 examined feedback alone (i.e., feedback in the absence of other intervention components).…”

Sustained effects of a visual prompt on dish storage in a hospital unit

“…Several studies have assessed the use of posted signs and found them to be effective in promoting behavior change. For example, signs have been demonstrated to decrease graffiti (Watson, 1996) and illegally parked cars (Cope & Allred, 1991), to increase recycling in offices (Austin, Hatfield, Grindle, & Bailey, 1993), and to increase appropriate seating opportunities in a college course (Mueller, Moore, Tingstrom, & Doggett, 2001).…”

“…Removal of prompts does not always result in behavior returning to baseline levels. Watson (1996) and Mueller et al (2001) demonstrated that behavior failed to return to baseline levels when the sign was removed, whereas Cope and Allred (1991) found that behavior did return to baseline levels when the sign was removed. In addition, many studies that assess antecedent interventions alone have found that visual prompts may initially occasion behavior, but are often not sufficient to produce long-term behavior change, and some have not assessed maintenance of antecedent prompts at all (Cox & Geller, 2010;Okinaka & Shimazaki, 2011).…”