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> It’s blaming the workers. Or getting them to delude themselves. This is a political position Quite the opposite. It is about enabling workers. From the r
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago
> It’s blaming the workers. Or getting them to delude themselves. This is a political position
Quite the opposite. It is about enabling workers.
From the research article:
“The cognitive appraisal theory of stress argues that events are stressful when people appraise that they lack the capacity to cope with them. Self-affirmation therefore emphases that employees can cope by affirming one’s self-worth and their ability to confront change at work (Dunning, 2005; Schmeichel & Vohs, 2009; Sherman & Cohen, 2006)”
- Animats 4y agoEnabling workers to cope with the existing situation. Not organize to change it.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y ago”cope by affirming one’s self-worth and their ability to confront change at work” Literally about how to confront change at work and how to feel better about yourself.
- paulryanrogers 4y agoIf the change were say the introduction of child labor at factories during the industrial revolution, would teaching acceptance and self esteem produce the best outcome for those workers? I realize some changes are inevitable. It's debatable to what degree automation is unstoppable and to want degree it's desirable--all things considered. Maybe the future will see my comment here and compare it to luddites. Or perhaps they'll be too busy drowning in paperclips.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoInteresting question. Child labor doesn’t seem to parallel exactly to this situation - applying this research, at that time, would be more about teaching the adults about how to healthily confront the reality of the situation and to remind them to value their own experience and wisdom, in the face of having to watch a child “take their job”. Conversely, though, would modern workers embrace child labor in automating some of their tasks and welcome them to the team without hesitation?
- _jal 4y agoThat's management guilt-reduction. Hire an outsourced talk-therapy outfit like Modern Health to add to the HR bundle and they can fend for themselves.
- 9wzYQbTYsAIc 4y agoWould be interesting to find the IO psychology take on the effectiveness of HR training programs. Guilt-reduction doesn’t necessarily have to mean checklists of training videos that no one pays attention to. Contracted talk-therapy is probably helpful for traumatic incidents like workplace shootings and could probably be implemented in a way that it is helpful for people feeling robot insecurities. edit: [1] found that “results suggest a medium to large effect size for organizational training”, meaning training often works, but there are caveats. [1] http://www.psychologie.uni-mannheim.de/cip/Tut/seminare_wittmann/meta_fribourg/Arthur_etal_2003_MA_Trainings_in_organisations.pdf http://www.psychologie.uni-mannheim.de/cip/Tut/seminare_witt...
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