Improving staff performance in a community mental health setting: job analysis, training, goal setting, feedback, and years of data

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The implementation of organizational behavior management techniques in a community mental health agency to improve the performance of staff members is studied. The study was prompted by staff members' confusion over what their duties were and what the organization expected from them. An intervention package made up of job descriptions, in-service training, goal setting and weekly feedback from supervisors was applied which successfully improved staff performance and accountability.

Management, Employee motivation, Organizational behavior, Psychiatric personnel, Mental health personnel

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Relating behavior analysis to the organizational culture concept and perspective

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A description of the two approaches in understanding organizational culture in terms of behavior analysis is presented. The two approaches are the organizational culture concept and the organizational culture perspective. The difference between the two approaches lies in the collection and analysis of data form corporations. Among the characteristics of social behavior are interlocking behaviors, role switching and reinforcer restrictions.

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Evolution of organizational cultures as selection by consequences: the Gaia hypothesis, metacontingencies, and organizational ecology

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The evolution of organizational cultural practices is explained in terms of concepts derived from biology, anthropology and behavior analysis. Natural selection is the dominant concept used to explain human behavior within organizations differing only through culture. A multi-disciplinary approach provides a theoretical framework to explain naturalselection within the organization.

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