Critically analyze the utility and potential negative consequences of socialization and behavior modification techniques. How ethical is it for the transformational manager to utilize these techniques?
Understanding, theory and practice
Content/theory/models/frameworks
Reading, scholarship
Evaluation and analysis
Critical thought and complexity
Conclusions and originality ( 150 words )
Written expression
Structure and presentation
Critically analysis on Socialization (1600 words – 2/3 on theory; 1/3 on application)
• Define organizational socialization, 2 definitions widely separated
• Using timeline approach explain how socialization takes place –pre/informal/formal. Mention desocialisation/socialization as part of this discussion.
• Discuss 4 socialization models
o Van Maanen & Schien six dimensions of socialization
• Don’t forget that these models are all really old, do they still apply in today’s world/ E.g. the number of women working, in the 70s / 80s it was job for life, now jobs change every couple of years.
• Impact of Covid 19 ???
Critically analysis on Behaviour modification (1600 words – 2/3 on theory; 1/3 on application) – ‘obmod’
• Define behaviour modification, 2 definitions widely separated – look@contentserver.pdf; 257174.pdf?@possibly; 40967074.pdf@possibly;
• Discuss 4 models of behaviour modification
• Positive reinforcement
• Negative reinforcement
• Punishment
• Extinction
• Hierarchy of effectiveness https://m.iaabc.org/about/lima/hierarchy/
Ethical usage of these techniques as a transformational manager (500w)
• Are these the correct ethical frameworks? The two most prevalent models are Rest’s (1986) fourcomponent model for individual ethical decision-making and Jones’ (1991) Issue-Contingent Model, which synthesized the previous ethical decision-making models and used Rest’s (1986) model as a foundation – the key point is that ethical people will probably doing this anyway and will an ethical framework really deter a toxic manager / corporate psychopath ???
• Discuss dark side of culture manipulation.
• Include Skinner theory on starving animals + homogenous population.
• Explore real business case examples which have acted unethically.
