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It's 2020 , time for management science to learn how to do science. No, it isn't science to take a study of individuals solving problems and extrapolating that
by buboard 7y ago
It's 2020 , time for management science to learn how to do science. No, it isn't science to take a study of individuals solving problems and extrapolating that "walking meetings work". It's bs.
- GuiA 7y agoManagement science fundamentally cannot be science. There’s nothing isolatable or replicable in humans in the workplace (or outside for that matter). The best you can do is apply statistical approaches to arbitrary abstractions, and the main thing we learn when we do that is that return to the mean is the only thing we can really be sure of?
- buboard 7y ago> There’s nothing isolatable or replicable in humans in the workplace That needs proof
- bluGill 7y agoWhile nothing might be too strong a statement, several studies have shown things like changing the light level in an office increases productivity - it doesn't matter what your started with or end up with. Given this how can you study the optimal light level in an office?
- buboard 7y agoi think you already solved it, the optimal level is "fluctuating" (btw thanks for the tip! i work at home and will use that)
- ghaff 7y agoWhat I assume is being referred to is the Hawthorne Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect I admit that I was aware of the original interpretation but not the novelty/disruption effect.
- WFHRenaissance 7y agoAlasdair Macintyre has a good chapter on this in After Virtue.