Leadership and Cultural Change: Implications for Behavior Analysis

Houmanfar, Ramona A.; Mattaini, Mark A.

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“…An analysis of the existing natural contingencies of reinforcement in this scenario is an interesting exercise and, in this case -although restricted to the organizational environment -it is valid and reflects the power relations observed by Houmanfar & Mattaini (2016) and Holland (2016), when quoting the direct control and the society reinforcement systems.…”

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“…On the project company level, these functions are particularly related to management processes of communication, of risks, and of analysis of internal and external environments, a context close to the one investigated by Houmanfar & Mattaini (2016). They analyse the investigation of a problem-situation by correlating it with the interactions between agents, recognising that coherent verbal networks can influence the decisions of other agents.…”

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Case study for the development of an analysis structure for the collaborative environment on project companies

Pina

Blumenschein

2020

Gest. Prod.

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This research presents an analysis of the paradigm that involves the collaborative management in technological environments of architectural and urban planning companies, in the Brazilian scenario. It associates Administration, Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC), and Behavioural Analysis perspectives. It is based on a review about the influencing factors inserted in BIM domain as learning process boosters, associating concepts of collaborative networks, project management, dynamic capabilities and meta-contingencies to discuss a class of problems arising from the lack of knowledge absorption, which was systematized in the study of management bottlenecks. The methodological approach, based on Design Science Research, synthesizes procedures compatible with the general typology of an artefact –a support tool – associated to a functional analysis. The obtained results highlight seven variables that represent categories of analysis of the collaborative environment: activities, self-assessment, BIM, decision-making, information, resources, and values. The main contribution of this research was to develop a methodological way to complement a partial diagnosis of project process management. It is the first step to develop an analysis structure that represents the dynamics of a collaborative network and not just isolated variables.

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Section: Important Factors In the Cooperation And Collaboration Betwementioning

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Section: Important Factors In the Cooperation And Collaboration Betwementioning

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Case study for the development of an analysis structure for the collaborative environment on project companies

Pina

Blumenschein

2020

Gest. Prod.

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“…The clarion call for effective leadership is no stranger to behavior analysis (Mattaini & Aspholm, 2016;Houmanfar et al, 2015;Houmanfar & Mattaini, 2016); the need for an effective technology to address societal ills has been present in the literature since the inception of our science (Skinner, 1938;1948). More recently, Houmanfar and Mattaini (2016) emphasized the role of leadership in constructing nurturing, just, and reinforcing societies (p. 43), and as recent events show (e.g., the long list of lives taken at the hands of police brutality and the separation of families at U.S. borders), we are well past due for this construction at all levels. Addressing the resurgence of explicit prejudice and discrimination (ADL, 2020) has become both a moral and ethical obligation.…”

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Esquierdo-Leal & Houmanfar (2020)

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2020

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From a global pandemic to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks and others in the Black community, the year 2020 has cast light on long-standing social injustices. With this has come a new social movement and a call for change. Specifically, a call for transformative solutions that address not only new challenges but centuries of systemic issues, such as systemic oppression and systemic racism. Leadership across the globe has scrambled to answer the call, some issuing statements committed to change, others engaging in necessary action. What is critical, however, is that leadership understands the cultural factors that have given rise to centuries of oppressive practices and that they are held accountable for the commitments they have expressed. Leadership must promote, create, and maintain prosocial, inclusive, and healthy work environments. This requires new cultural practices and a focused organizational model. Equally important is the need to resolve ambiguity and communicate effectively, with strategic consideration of constituent perspectives and needs. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the contribution of behavior analysis in addressing systemic oppression as well as the pivotal role of leadership communication plays in occasioning social change. It is our hope that this conceptual work will inspire behavior scientists to advance the field of behavior analysis and social movements in the direction of equitable, prosocial change that dismantles systemic oppression.

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“…). The recent pages of PoBS are filled with articles taking on topics under the dome such as incarceration(Apel and Diller 2017), consumer behavior(Foxall 2017), higher education(Brodsky and Fienup 2018), progressive political movements(Mattaini and Aspholm 2016), narrative (Hineline 2018), leadership(Houmanfar and Mattaini 2016), the "replication crisis"(Laraway et al 2019), connectionist models of human and computer learning(Ninness et al 2018), healthy eating(Rafacz 2019;Sigurdsson et al 2017), poverty(Silverman et al 2019), conditioning plants (Adelman 2018), understanding concepts(Layng 2019), flirtation(Wade 2018), and maternal health(Washio and Humphreys 2018).…”

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Audaciously under the Dome: Behavior Science in Systems and Society

Hantula

2019

Perspect Behav Sci

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Operant research was never about counting key pecks, lever presses, switch closures, or keyboard taps. These easily indexed, convenient, sometimes arbitrary responses were adopted as a means to yield data that could tell us something about matters that were more grand and important than a relay pulse. The title of Skinner's (1938) seminal The Behavior of Organisms was criticized by contemporaries as an immodest overreach (Finan 1940; Hilgard 1939), but a more unassuming title such as "The Lever Pressing of the Rat" might quickly have relegated the book to dusty university library stacks and antiquarian bookstores. Instead, the book remains in print to this day 1 because it was big, bold, and brash, and set the occasion for a science that could and would handle anything the world might throw at it, taking us from rats to human behavior (Skinner 1953) and from lever presses to language or in Skinner's (1957) terms, verbal behavior. Other audacious extrapolations inspired by this work followed. A five-page paper describing the behavior of three pigeons (Herrnstein 1961) led to the matching law (Herrnstein 1970); a six-page report of choices by six pigeons (Ainslie and Herrnstein 1981) gave us the hyperbolic discount function. Both the matching law and hyperbolic discount function now challenge rational choice theory and the foundation of neoclassical economics (Herrnstein 1990) and helped usher in behavioral economics (Furrebøe and Sandaker 2017). The hyperbolic discount function spawned research in a wide range of topics from quotidian behaviors such as choices for consumer items (Fagerstrøm and Hantula 2013; Oliveira-Castro and Marques 2017) or employment (Schoenfelder and Hantula 2003) to serious social problems such as substance abuse (Green and Myerson 2019; Mitchell 2019). Indeed, work on discounting has become so sophisticated that discount functions can predict treatment

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Leadership and Cultural Change: Implications for Behavior Analysis

Cited by 15 publications

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Case study for the development of an analysis structure for the collaborative environment on project companies

Case study for the development of an analysis structure for the collaborative environment on project companies

Esquierdo-Leal & Houmanfar (2020)

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Leadership and Cultural Change: Implications for Behavior Analysis

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Case study for the development of an analysis structure for the collaborative environment on project companies

Case study for the development of an analysis structure for the collaborative environment on project companies

Esquierdo-Leal &amp; Houmanfar (2020)

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