This section describes effective applications of Behavior Analysis to yield significant improvements in various aspects of business and industry. Included are principles and applications pertaining to performance improvement at the front-line employee, management, and leadership levels, as well as more comprehensive system-wide applications to organizations as a whole.
Organizational Behavior Management
Welcome to the Organizational Behavior Management section of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. We invite you to interact with our site by visiting our specialty sections below, which will be updated and revised on a continual basis.
The following is a definition of the field of Organizational Behavior Management that was offered by Hall (1980). Writing in an editorial for the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, he explains:
What is Organizational Behavior Management (OBM)?
The field of OBM consists of the development and evaluation of performance improvement procedures which are based on the principles of behavior discovered through the science of behavior analysis. These procedures are considered to be within the scope of OBM when they focus on improving individual or group performance within an organizational setting, whether that organization be a business, industrial setting, or human service setting, and whether that organization was established for profit or not.
The goal of the field of OBM is to establish a technology of broad-scale performance improvement and organizational change so that employees will be more productive and happy, and so that our organizations and institutions will be more effective and efficient in achieving their goals. (p. 145)
OBM draws upon basic and applied research in behavior analysis plus the research and practice in Performance Management and Behavioral Systems Analysis.
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