Table of contents
Reducing Accidents Using a Behavioural Approach
Peter J. Makin, Valerie J. SutherlandAn important distinction in psychology is between external and internaldeterminants of behaviour. Behaviour may be perceived as beingdetermined either by factors internal to the…
When Does Behaviour Modification Prevent Accidents?
Jorma SaariThe reinforcement of safe behaviour by positive feedback, in other wordsbehaviour modification (B. Mod.), is one of the most successful safetyinnovations achieved during the past…
Operant Technologies: A Theoretical Foundation for Organizational Change and Development
Mark J. Martinko, Paul FadilOperant technologies have been criticized as being too micro‐orientedand simplistic to apply to the complex problems and interdependentissues associated with major organizational…
Overcoming Dependence with Contingency Contracting
Charles Cox, Peter MakinThere is a discernible trend for organizations to be moving away fromdirective and authoritarian management styles, towards a moreparticipative approach, which involves…
Emergence of the Operant Model of Effective Supervision : or How an Operant Conditioner Got Hooked on Leadership
Judith L. KomakiA first‐hand account of how one of the lesser known features of operantconditioning – its prosocial stance hooked an idealistic graduate studentin the late 1960s and has kept her…
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- Professor Martin McCracken
- Prof Paul Humphreys