Dr. Dickinson offers this class every fall semester.

Updated: November 20th, 2011

This course examines human behavior in organizations from a behavioral psychology perspective. The course has two main objectives: To teach students how to analyze organizational behavior and performance improvement techniques from a behavioral perspective and to familiarize students with common performance improvement techniques and their applications. Topics include: the history of organizational behavior management and industrial/organizational psychology, performance assessment and measurement, feedback, goal setting, rewards and monetary incentives, and the relationship between job satisfaction and performance. Students entering the course are expected to have a thorough understanding of the basic principles of behavior analysis, including operant and respondent conditioning. Course prerequisite: Graduate student in psychology.

Syllabus (Fall 2011)

Study Objectives

Unit 1 lecture

Unit 2 lecture

Unit 3 lecture

Unit 4 lecture

Unit 5 lecture

Unit 6 lecture

Unit 7 lecture

Unit 8 lecture

Alyce Dickinson can be contacted at alyce.dickinson@wmich.edu

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