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… Sustainability in Your Process Improvement Lean and Six Sigma are very useful tools for process improvement initiatives with the … work. However, when I’ve worked with organizations that use Lean or Six Sigma there is one common challenge; a lack of sustainability. According to these organizations, less than 50% of process improvement initiatives sustain after the initial implementation phase. This lack of sustainability for such a large number of projects is shocking. …
… Skinner´s instruments used sophisticated electromechanical systems to operate, but as new technologies became available, the operant chamber and control equipment evolved by integrating computers, electronic interfaces, and even … are necessary to acquire operant chambers. In some cases, especially in developing countries, such funding simply isn’t available. Because of this, it is not surprising that using costly operant chambers to teach students in laboratory courses is … Users can design and create solid tridimensional objects almost everywhere. Although 3D printing technology has been available since the 1980s, only recently 3D printers, like the one shown in Figure 1, became cost accessible worldwide. …
… in managing behavior. 1. Extinguishing behavior takes time. Other things being constant, the reinforcement schedule maintaining the response prior to extinction governs both the speed and pattern of responding as response reduction proceeds. The … we have witnessed (dare I say it?) a resurgence of research related to extinction and its byproducts. But still much remains unknown. For example, even something seemingly as well establish and general as the extinction burst on further …
… a penalty on himself, a penalty that no one saw. That one stroke caused him to lose the tournament. When people began to praise him for his actions he replied, “You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.” I was reminded of this quote when hearing that Washington D.C. had approved a program … a penalty on himself, a penalty that no one saw. That one stroke caused him to lose the tournament. When people began to praise him for his actions he replied, “You might as well praise a man for not robbing a bank.” I was reminded of this quote …
… for the uninitiated). It is an instruction admonishing users to be aware of the space between the platform and the train when embarking or disembarking. I have another suggestion for its use: to describe the disparity between the rules or … dangerous situation exists. A highway sign indicating that the road veers to the left isn’t posted if the road is either straight or veers to the right. Parents don’t usually tell their children that if they don’t stop doing what they are doing … order to attack even though the contingencies might suggest that she has some likelihood of being wounded or even killed. Failing to follow orders, however, also has unpleasant consequences for the disobeyer, greatly complicating the relation …
… that is observed when reinforcement is eliminated. Thus, behavior that is no longer reinforced and no longer occurs is said to be extinguished. Sometimes the two definitions are used in the same breath, which can be confusing to people unfamiliar with the relation between the two. Extinction procedures can remain in place for short or long periods of time, depending on the circumstances. The duration often depends on the behavior … behavior no longer occurs, but because reinforcement is no longer occurring, the extinction procedure in a sense still remains in effect. Extinction also can occur in concert with other, reinforcement, conditions. For example, if Dad never …
… As noted in the previous Behavior Watch commentary , rules, a.k.a. instructions, are valuable in establishing and maintaining behavior wherever people live and work. Rules are created to both facilitate and eliminate behavior: “DO empty your … commentary, focusing here on what I call “over-instructing.” Everyone who has grown up with a caregiver – mother, father, maiden aunt, whoever – knows exactly what I am talking about. I hasten to point out that, among all members of the human …
… for example, I receive a set of rules (or instructions) on how to assemble a widget, in the course of actually assembling said widget, I may discover a more efficient way to do so. Under these conditions, continuing to follow the more inefficient … there is a more efficient, but also less safe, way of completing the task. Even though there may be potential short-term gains in using the less safe method, the originally instructed method has greater positive consequences overall because it … going efficiently so that natural consequences can further shape the behavior. Rules are less to non-negotiable when failures to follow them is truly counterproductive to the rule follower and to the rule developer. … It is hard …
… people manage stress at work, ADI's Performance Management Publications is publishing two workbooks: the first will explain how employers can create a positive culture and daily management practices that reduce the negative effects of stress and the second, a self-help workbook, will provide … Also, Jun Ishida's and Darnell Lattal's new book addressing the high cost of stress on the Japanese workforce will be available summer 2009. Stress and Safety: A Costly Relationship On April 25, 2005, a Japanese train jumped its tracks while …
… a part of the “natural order of things” as is Boyle’s law, Newton’s second law of thermodynamics, or Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. That is, actions in any environment followed by certain kinds of consequences identified as reinforcers are more likely to recur than are actions not followed by those … Although the principles themselves are not open to ethical debate – they simply are - the uses to which they are put certainly has been, and should be, debated. Nowhere is this more visible than with the debate that surrounded the ethics of …
… responses when issues of its equivalence to bribery do arise. Reinforcement occurs when a response increases or is maintained as a result of the presentation of some activity or object. Such presentation usually is dependent on and occurs more … Bribery is, by definition, illegal and/or unethical. Offering or taking a bribe has legal consequences – fines, jail, or both. Reinforcement is neither of those things. Providing a reinforcer as part of a therapeutic intervention, for …
… confuses, indeed, seems to equate, behavioral psychology with general psychology and damns behavioral psychology for its failures to replicate. Let's take a look, first, at what he actually says in his October 19, 2015 op/ed piece in The Weekly … … Nearly two-thirds of the experiments did not replicate, meaning the scientists repeated these studies but could not obtain the results that were found by the original research team." I start by saying that none of the experiments in the … in these journals, however, does rely on the kinds of statistical analyses that resulted in the replication issues raised in the Science article. As I noted in my earlier comments on replication , behavior analysts largely reject these …
… too much sitting is bad for us. Regardless of where many of us work, our environment promotes little physical activity and mainly consists of swipes, clicks, key presses, and scrolls. You may have heard by now that “sitting is the new smoking.” The … doctor’s or health organization’s recommendation. Often, conclusions from these studies (or this commentary) give us certain ideas, or rules, to increase our physical activity in the workplace such as “sit less, move more,” "walk 10,000 steps … down the right path, but may not keep it going. The behavior associated with any health benefit (getting out of our chairs more) must contact the right consequence (reinforcement) to develop and sustain health improvements. Take the everyday …
… Seven Tips for Retaining Your Talent Attracting and keeping your best performers continues to be not only a smart business decision but a very … one that all companies invest in. While some believe attracting talent is the first hurdle, nothing is more crucial than retaining the top performers already engaged in your organization. Here are seven tips for ensuring that your top talent not … one that all companies invest in. While some believe attracting talent is the first hurdle, nothing is more crucial than retaining the top performers already engaged in your organization. Here are seven tips for ensuring that your top talent not …
… for our behavior. Consider the following statement from an article in the August 24, 2015 of Time magazine on the Target chain about their discontinuation of labeling toys as being either boy- or girl=- appropriate: “It’s natural for kids to … sort of contradict her earlier statement about naturalness by pointing out that time was when pink was the color not for fairy princesses, but for little boys with pockets filled with snails and puppy dog tails! And that during the Second World War women stepped out of their traditional (would anyone want to …