The Future (and Past) of Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour: A Personal View

Adrian Furnham

doi:10.5771/0935-9915-2004-4-420

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- 410–419 New Directions in Organizational Behaviour? Albert Martin Albert Martin 410–419
- 420–436 The Future (and Past) of Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour: A Personal View Adrian Furnham Adrian Furnham 420–436
- 437–459 Models of Bounded Rationality: The Approach of Fast and Frugal Heuristics Ulrich Hoffrage, Torsten Reimer Ulrich Hoffrage, Torsten Reimer 437–459
- 460–480 Strategy Implementation Tactics as Response to Organizational, Strategic, and Environmental Imperatives Johannes Lehner Johannes Lehner 460–480
- 481–509 Lost in Transition? Complexity in Organisational Behaviour – the Contributions of Systems Theories Guido Strunk, Michael Schiffinger, Wolfgang Mayrhofer Guido Strunk, Michael Schiffinger, Wolfgang Mayrhofer 481–509
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The Future (and Past) of Work Psychology and Organizational Behaviour: A Personal View

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Adrian Furnham

DOI
- doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2004-4-420
- ISSN print: 0935-9915
- ISSN online: 1861-9908
Abstract

This paper offers a personal and perhaps "side-ways" view on the past and future of two closely related semi-disciplines: work psychology and organisational behaviour. The paper first addresses the terminological confusion in the area and discusses 10 terms often used inter-changably. It then considers whether work psychology has been, or can ever be, neutral or disinterested in the way it is researched and applied. Some time is spent on the issue of definitions at the heart of which is the idea that behaviour at work is shaped by behaviour out of the work place and vice versa. In this sense all behaviour is work behaviour. The central part of the paper offers six criticisms of past and present work psychology (Ethnocentric and parochial, a-theoretical, a-historical, neglecting salient issues, offering more simplification than clarification, and a tendency to relativism or absolutism). It also offers seven criticisms of organizational behaviour (political correctness, anecdotes not data, no powerful theories, derivative methodology, confused identity, marketing issues and the problems it attacks). Despite these critiques the paper ends on an "upbeat note" pointing to three examples where progress has been, and is being made.
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