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The Behaviourist’s Guidebook

A digital dashboard that helps improve work conditions and work behaviour by applying continuously updated results of scientific studies.

The Behaviourist’s Guidebook answers the following questions about key aspects of a work environment.

  1. When it comes to workers’ mental health, their risk of burn-out, their job satisfaction, or their engagement, could there be room for improvement?

  2. If so, is there an issue? How big is it? What priority should solving it take?

  3. What is the likely cause of the issue?

  4. How could you solve the issue?

The Behaviourist’s Guidebook helps to answer these questions, and holds a number of additional unique benefits.

The benefits

The intended users of the Behaviourist’s Guidebook are business consultants, HR departments, higher management, researchers, and research institutes. For each of them the benefits may be slightly different.

    • an enhanced claim to performing actual data-driven consultancy, and the ability to provide more scientifically sound, and more complete solutions to organisational-psychological problems

    • the ability to prioritise interventions and to pinpoint problem areas, for quicker and more cost-efficient results

    • easier communications with clients about what consultants can do and why they should do it

    • quick access to some of the most validated, meaningful measures

    • benchmarks for all of these measures, allowing for a comparison with other organisations worldwide

    • easily obtained knowledge into the causes of work behaviour as currently understood by organisational psychologists

    • clarity about the true meaning of some of the most often used variables affecting work behaviour

    • a better check on external business consultants

    • the option of a self-performed quick scan, and comparison with relevant benchmarks (with a one-sample t-test to determine whether the observed mean is significantly different from the benchmark)

    • clarity about the current state of organisational-psychological knowledge, and gaps therein.

    • the means to determine some of the value – relevance and possibility of replication – of research proposals considering previous studies, so available funds can be used most effectively

    • source guide to peer-reviewed articles based on inclusion of specific factors and measures

    • list of the most popular measures for the most frequently studied factors

    • comparative appraisal of measurement outcomes based on benchmark figures

What it looks like

For a first impression, take a look by clicking on the image.

For how to use the Behaviourist’s Guidebook, click on the instructions.

The factors included

The Behaviourist's Guidebook is continually being expanded. Currently, it includes the following organisational-psychological factors.

Absorption

Affective organisational commitment

Competence

Dedication

Distributive justice

Emotional exhaustion

Ethical leadership

Felt obligation

Impact

In-role performance

Informational justice

Interpersonal justice

Leader-member exchange quality

Organisational citizenship behaviour

Organisational identification

Overall job satisfaction

Perceived contract breach

Perceived organisational support

Person-organisation fit

Procedural justice

Psychological empowerment

Psychological meaningfulness

Role ambiguity

Self-determination

Transformational leadership

Trust in the organisation

Turnover intentions

Vigour

Work engagement

Contact

If you’d like to discuss the best ways to put The Behaviourist’s Guidebook to use, don’t hesitate to contact me. Also, if you’d like to co-operate in this endeavour I’d be super eager to make your acquaintance.

Coen Ackers