Status in organizations: where evolutionary theory ranks
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Efforts to achieve high status ranking within groups in organizations are accomplished through both dominance and prestige. Humans are unique among the animal species in that prestige is a particularly significant determinant of status ranking. In humans, prestige and dominance are to a certain degree interdependent. Status striving and status ranking are very pervasive within organizations but social and cultural explanations for status fail to sufficiently explain why this is so. Thus, an analysis of status among people in the organizational workplace is presented the perspective of evolutionary psychology.
Publication Name: Managerial & Decision Economics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0143-6570
Year: 1998
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Cheater detection and altruistic behavior: an experimental and methodological exploration
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Three specially designed studies were conducted to investigate cheating or opportunistic behavior and altruistic behavior from the perspective of evolutionary psychology and to compare test results with the deontic perspective. The detection of opportunists or cheaters is a significant prerequisite for survival in an economic world where opportunism abounds. The studies found few differences between the ability to detect altruists and the ability to detect cheaters and belie evolutionary psychology-based theories on the subject.
Publication Name: Managerial & Decision Economics
Subject: Economics
ISSN: 0143-6570
Year: 1998
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