M. Commons, P. Miller, Saranya Ramakrishnan, Sarthak Giri
{"title":"Employee management using behavioral developmental theory.","authors":"M. Commons, P. Miller, Saranya Ramakrishnan, Sarthak Giri","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000072","url":null,"abstract":"Lack of employee engagement and productivity due to job misfit is a problem faced by many managers. Improving job fit plays a significant role in increasing employee engagement, productivity, and engagement. The instruments reported here are effective in providing a better method of assessing job fit. The model of hierarchical complexity (Commons & Richards, 1984; Commons, Trudeau, Stein, Richards, & Krause, 1998) offers a standard method of assessing employee behavior. The instruments developed with the model as a basis are (a) Decision-Making Instrument and (b) PerspectiveTaking Instrument. In addition, a behavioral version of the Holland Occupational Interests scale is introduced. Decision-making or problem-solving scores help assess how difficult a task an employee successfully completes. Perspective-taking scores reflect how well an employee understands social situations and people’s actions. Our behavioral version of the Holland scale identifies the relative reinforcement value of engaging in different categories of work activities These three scores give companies comprehensive knowledge of the hierarchical complexity stage of job performance and occupational interests. This should help companies better manage human resources, hire and develop employees, and shape the future organizational structure.","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121223943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing complexity in organizations : Analyzing and discussing a managerial perspective on the nature of organizational leadership","authors":"O. Törnblom","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000068","url":null,"abstract":"Alternative ways of organizing are emerging, questioning and challenging conventional assumptions regarding organizational structures, managerial roles, and leadership. In addition, new emerging in ...","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124261023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Adult development as a lens: Applications of adult development theories in research.","authors":"S. Kjellström, Kristian Stålne","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000053","url":null,"abstract":"Adult development (AD) theories have a great potential for use in providing perspective and create new understanding of societal problems and challenges. The use of AD as a lens provides insights i ...","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127547767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognition, cultural practices, and the working of political institutions: An adult developmental perspective on corruption in Russian history.","authors":"E. Fein","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000034","url":null,"abstract":"Corruption is one of the typical problems facing societies that aim at making transitions toward modern, Western-type democracies. Even though corruption also exists inside most developed democracies, the scope and quality of corrupt practices, as well as the way they are evaluated and dealt with by politics, justice, and public discourse, differs substantially, depending on the degree of complexity of the dominant political, legal, and economic cultures in the respective country. This article looks at how a developmental perspective can provide deeper insights into the role of patronage, clientelism, and corruption in Russian society. It is based on an earlier in-depth discussion on the relation between adult development and phenomena of corruption (Fein & Weibler, 2014), and draws on the metatheoretical framework for analyzing corruption, discourses on corruption (and anticorruption), and action taken against corruption developed there. By looking at how these phenomena have changed in Russia over the past 150 years, it shows that developmental perspectives provide a considerable surplus value for analyzing and understanding culture and society, as well as the functioning of political institutions. Both can be interpreted in relation to the dominant level of complexity of Russia’s political culture as it has changed over time.","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116846467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion and human development in adulthood: Well-being, prosocial behavior, and religious and spiritual development.","authors":"J. Day","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000031","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years there has been an upsurge in research and publication in the psychology of religion, including work with implications for adult development. This article reviews the relevant literature, considering themes such as religion and spirituality and well-being in the adult years; religion, prosocial, and antisocial behavior; and models of religious and spiritual development incorporating life stages in the adult years. Practical implications for education, psychotherapy, and other domains in applied developmental psychology are considered.","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130024924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An overview of adult cognitive development research and its application in the field of leadership studies.","authors":"Jonathan Reams","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000032","url":null,"abstract":"The field of leadership development has suffered from a behavioral training approach. Bringing an adult cognitive developmental perspective to the field offers new possibilities. However, proponents of this approach often still find themselves on the margins of research and application in the field. This article provides an overview of how research and practice at the intersection of these two fields has progressed with some discussion of how it appears in relation to the larger field of leadership discourse. There is a brief survey of some of the more well-known approaches to applying adult development models to leadership development. To illustrate this, an example from client work done from this approach is highlighted in terms of some preliminary research on the impacts on leadership skills from utilizing an adult developmental model for leadership development programs. Concluding remarks identify the need to take advantage of more widespread practitioner application to further research in the field.","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121528651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vladimir Putin’s political leadership in action: Two developmentally informed case studies on domestic and foreign politics.","authors":"Anastasija Wagner, E. Fein","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000038","url":null,"abstract":"This article expands on Wagner and Fein’s (2016) analysis of Vladimir Putin’s political leadership viewed through a developmental lens. On the basis of a qualitative analysis of selected published materials on Putin’s role in Russian politics from 2000 to 2015, 2 case studies take a closer look at important domestic (Case Study 1) and international (Case Study 2) issues. First, these case studies analyze in what sense the way in which Putin has dealt with important political challenges during his past 15-plus years in office can be interpreted through a developmental lens. Second, we discuss some of the major implications of a developmentally informed interpretation of Putin’s leadership for Russian and Western politics.","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134594238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion and adult development: Are there postformal stages in religious cognition? Theoretical considerations, empirical evidence, and promotion of development in adulthood.","authors":"J. Day","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000036","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years there has been renewed interest in questions regarding religious and spiritual development, and their relationship to other domains of human development, in psychological science. One pioneering research domain in this developmental area of the psychology of religion explores whether there exist postformal stages in cognition pertaining to religious questions, and decision making where religious elements may be pertinent. In this article we demonstrate the utility of the model of hierarchical complexity in conducting research in this domain, showing the existence of postformal stages in adult populations, some images of religious “belief” in a postformal frame, and emerging patterns of postformal prospects among “gifted” young people. We consider some repercussions of models of human development and for working with young people and adults.","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"176 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131839642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A brief report on the Verbal Behavior Curriculum (VBC) to teach children with autism and other language disorders.","authors":"Gladys Williams, R. Laitinen","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000055","url":null,"abstract":"This article gives an account of the development of a scope-and-sequence based curriculum, the Verbal Behavior Curriculum, and an overview of the learning principles that directed its design and incorporation of instructional delivery and management procedures. The curriculum was informed by both Skinnerian and post-Skinnerian accounts of complex language and cognitive behaviors, instructional design and delivery technologies derived from discrete trial-based, Direct Instruction and Precision Teaching research as well as application concepts. The bulk of the article details that part of the curriculum’s design intended to instantiate 3 critical behavioral repertoires (aka cusps): (a) early stages of participative, listener and observant skills, essential components for social behavior, (b) readiness/attention skills that enable the acquisition of missing prerequisite skills to acquire high order generative language, and (c) use of language skills in social situations to develop the full potential of the learner, sometimes turning into a fully verbal individual.","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126613145","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imitation enhances social behavior of children with autism spectrum disorder: A review.","authors":"T. Field","doi":"10.1037/BDB0000042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/BDB0000042","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a brief review of the literature on the enhancing effects of adult imitating the social behavior of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The studies reviewed show that children with ASD respond more to imitative than to contingently responsive adults. After repeated imitation sessions, the children showed more distal social behaviors (looking, vocalizing), proximal social behaviors (moving close to and touching adult) and more joint attention behaviors as well as less repetitive/stereotypic behaviors during the imitation condition. To determine if any other behaviors of adults encouraged approach behavior by these children, the adults’ behaviors were coded. The children approached both more imitative and more playful adults. Interactions between children with autism and their parents suggested that when compared with the imitative adult the parents of children with ASD showed less imitative behavior. The children, in turn, were more imitative with the imitative adult. In another study, parents of children with ASD spent more time demonstrating and directing the children’s play and were less imitative. In at least 1 study, however, the children with autism showed more distal and proximal social behaviors with their mothers when their mothers were asked to imitate all the children’s behaviors. The literature suggests, then, that children with ASD showed more social and imitative behavior when they were imitated, highlighting the importance of imitation as an effective therapy for these children.","PeriodicalId":314223,"journal":{"name":"The Behavioral Development Bulletin","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125145019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}