The Behaviourally Informed Organization

The Behaviourally Informed Organization
Author: Soman Dilip
Publisher: Rotman-Utp Publishing
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781487507893

Using case studies and best practices as examples of success this book helps managers understand why and how they can embed behavioral insights into the structure and operations of any organization.

The Behaviorally Informed Organization

The Behaviorally Informed Organization
Author: Dilip Soman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1487537174

Every organization is fundamentally in the business of behavior change, whether it be a government trying to get a business to comply with environmental regulations, a business persuading its customers to be loyal to its products, or a financial institution encouraging a client to start saving for retirement. Behavior change is critical to organizational success, but despite its centrality to organizations, we do not have a good understanding of how organizations can successfully employ insights from behavioral science in their operations. To address this gap, this book develops an overarching framework for using behavioral science. It shows how behavioral insights (BI) can be embedded in organizations to achieve better outcomes, improve the efficiency of processes, and maximize stakeholder engagement. This edited volume provides an enterprise-wide strategic perspective on how governments, businesses, and other organizations have embedded BI into their operations. Contributions by academics and practitioners from the Behaviourally Informed Organizations partnership highlight pragmatic frameworks and prescriptive outcomes via illustrative case studies. Featuring a foreword by Cass R. Sunstein, this book investigates key findings from BI, with an eye toward how it can be used to solve problems and seize opportunities in diverse organizations.

The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law

The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law
Author: Eyal Zamir
Publisher: Oxford Handbooks
Total Pages: 841
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199945470

'The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Law' brings together leading scholars of law, psychology, and economics to provide an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of this field of research, including its strengths and limitations as well as a forecast of its future development. Its twenty-nine chapters are organized into four parts.

The Last Mile

The Last Mile
Author: Dilip Soman
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1442616644

Most organizations spend much of their effort on the start of the value creation process: namely, creating a strategy, developing new products or services, and analyzing the market. They pay a lot less attention to the end: the crucial “last mile” where consumers come to their website, store, or sales representatives and make a choice. In The Last Mile, Dilip Soman shows how to use insights from behavioral science in order to close that gap. Beginning with an introduction to the last mile problem and the concept of choice architecture, the book takes a deep dive into the psychology of choice, money, and time. It explains how to construct behavioral experiments and understand the data on preferences that they provide. Finally, it provides a range of practical tools with which to overcome common last mile difficulties. The Last Mile helps lay readers not only to understand behavioral science, but to apply its lessons to their own organizations’ last mile problems, whether they work in business, government, or the nonprofit sector. Appealing to anyone who was fascinated by Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge, or Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow but was not sure how those insights could be practically applied, The Last Mile is full of solid, concrete advice on how to put the lessons of behavioral science to work.

The External Control of Organizations

The External Control of Organizations
Author: Jeffrey Pfeffer
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 080474789X

This work explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. It contends that it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behaviour both possible and almost inevitable. Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty.

Building Behavioral Science in an Organization

Building Behavioral Science in an Organization
Author: Zarak Khan
Publisher: Action Design Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781736652503

As applied behavioral science has become more widespread, a need has emerged for guidance on how to build and integrate behavioral science functions within an organization. This book draws on the collective wisdom of applied behavioral scientists with deep experience within their respective practice areas to provide practical guidance on building a behavioral science function that has a meaningful impact for your organization.

Trauma Informed Behaviour Support

Trauma Informed Behaviour Support
Author: EdD Kay Ayre
Publisher:
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2021-08-25
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780648769835

This book is a practical guide to developing resilient learners by equipping educators with trauma informed practices and behaviour support strategies.

What Works

What Works
Author: Iris Bohnet
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2016-03-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674089030

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Best Business Book of the Year, 800-CEO-READ Gender equality is a moral and a business imperative. But unconscious bias holds us back, and de-biasing people’s minds has proven to be difficult and expensive. By de-biasing organizations instead of individuals, we can make smart changes that have big impacts. Presenting research-based solutions, Iris Bohnet hands us the tools we need to move the needle in classrooms and boardrooms, in hiring and promotion, benefiting businesses, governments, and the lives of millions. “Bohnet assembles an impressive assortment of studies that demonstrate how organizations can achieve gender equity in practice...What Works is stuffed with good ideas, many equally simple to implement.” —Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal “A practical guide for any employer seeking to offset the unconscious bias holding back women in organizations, from orchestras to internet companies.” —Andrew Hill, Financial Times