Workshop: Work Climate in Organizations

组织科学家希望优化创造创新和高质量产品的方法，通常专注于合理的决策和不同结果的成本和收益的数学模型。然而，这种关注忽略了这样一个事实，即在组织中工作是一种社会体验，可以是有益的和鼓舞人心的，甚至是令人沮丧和筋疲力尽的，组织成员体验这种工作环境可能会阻碍或超越合理的过程。这些以产品为中心(例如机械工程学)和以人为中心(例如组织心理学)的组织有效性方法往往是独立研究的，这不利于完全理解生产性和创新性的工作场所。每个学科都有自己的理论假设和研究范式，例如，工程学者专注于计算模型和算法，组织心理学家获得主观报告和观察数据。理论的进步需要跨越这些学科的意识和整合。还出现了方法学上的进步，可以更好地整合这些方法，例如记录团队互动的动态音频或视频并实时映射到团队过程和结果的技术。尽管学者们越来越意识到以人为本和以产品为导向的方法对组织有效性都很重要，但这并不意味着他们知道应该如何整合这些方法。推动组织科学的发展，需要学者们在各个学术领域进行跨学科的讨论。因此，本次研讨会旨在促进工程设计、商业和组织心理学领域的领导者之间的沟通，以便通过这些学科之间的新颖互动来促进组织科学的发展。为期两天的跨学科研讨会将在宾夕法尼亚州大学公园的宾夕法尼亚州立大学举行。其目标是通过交流理论和研究方面的进展来推进组织科学--特别是对组织生产力和创新进行建模。我们将使用三种策略来实现这一目标。首先，将有几个学科的领导者分享论文和演讲，他们在建模组织的生产力和创新以及对多学科观点的开放方面有着共同的兴趣。这些领域的领导者包括知名教授和系主任，顶级期刊的编辑，以及来自组织心理学、商业、计算机科学和工程学的活跃学者。其次，学者们将讨论研究组织成员如何为共同目标而共同工作的新方法进展，包括如何将理性决策模型与主观的多层次和动态的人类体验相结合。最后，将有非正式的分组会议，以鼓励关于演讲的跨学科对话，并允许出现合作机会。将邀请有相关兴趣的初级学者和研究生出席，以推进下一波组织奖学金。这一研讨会将提供独特的机会，以建立新的理论和研究方法，更真实和全面地捕捉到当今工作场所生产和创新过程的复杂性。

Organizational scientists want to optimize the methods for creating innovative and quality products, often focusing on rational decision-making and mathematical models of costs and benefits of different outcomes. Yet, this focus overlooks the fact that working in organizations is a social experience that can be rewarding and inspiring, or even frustrating and exhausting, and organizational members experience of such work climates can hinder or override rational processes. These product-focused (e.g., mechanical engineering) and person-focused (e.g., organizational psychology) approaches to organizational effectiveness tend to be studied independently, to the detriment of complete understanding productive and innovative workplaces. Each discipline has their own theoretical assumptions and research paradigms, e.g., engineering scholars focus on computational models and algorithms, and organizational psychologists obtain subjective reports and observational data. Theoretical advances require awareness and integration across these disciplines. Methodological advances have also emerged that may permit better integration of these approaches, such as technology that records dynamic audio or video of team interactions and mapped in real time to the team processes and outcomes. Although scholars are becoming more aware that both the people-oriented and product-oriented approaches matter to organizational effectiveness, this does not mean that they understand how these should be integrated. Moving forward in the science of organizations requires cross-disciplinary discussions from scholars across academic silos. As such, this workshop seeks to foster communication between leaders in the fields of engineering design, business, and organizational psychology, in order to advance the science of organizations through novel interactions between these disciplines. An interdisciplinary two-day workshop will be held at Penn State University in University Park, PA. The goal is to advance the science of organizations - specifically modeling organizational productivity and innovation - through communication about advances in theory and research. We will use three strategies to obtain this goal. First, there will be papers and presentations shared from leaders in several disciplines who share a common interest in modeling the productivity and innovation of organizations and openness to multidisciplinary perspectives. These leaders in the field include named professors and department chairs, editors of top journals, and active scholars with grant funding, from organizational psychology, business, computer science, and engineering. Second, scholars will discuss new methodological advances for studying how organizational members work together toward shared goals, including ways to integrate the rational decision making models and the subjective multilevel and dynamic human experience. Finally, there will be informal breakout sessions to encourage cross-disciplinary conversations about the presentations, and permit collaborative opportunities to emerge. Junior scholars and graduate students with related interests will be invited to attend to advance the next wave of organizational scholarship. This workshop will provide unique opportunities to build novel theories and research approaches that more truly and comprehensively capture the complexity of productive and innovative processes in today's workplace.