Workshop: Work Climate in Organizations

研讨会：组织中的工作氛围

• 批准号: 1625073
• 负责人: Alicia Grandey
• 金额: $ 4.54万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-15 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1625073&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Work; Climate; Organizations

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.

组织科学家希望优化创造创新和优质产品的方法，通常关注理性决策以及不同结果的成本和收益的数学模型。 然而，这种关注忽视了这样一个事实：在组织中工作是一种社会经历，可以是有益的和鼓舞人心的，甚至是令人沮丧和疲惫的，而组织成员在这种工作氛围中的经历可能会阻碍或凌驾于理性过程之上。这些以产品为中心（例如机械工程）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，这不利于完全理解高效和创新的工作场所。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。理论进步需要跨学科的认识和整合。 方法论上的进步也可能允许更好地整合这些方法，例如记录团队交互的动态音频或视频并实时映射到团队流程和结果的技术。 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理解如何将它们整合起来。 组织科学的发展需要跨学术领域的学者进行跨学科讨论。 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领导者之间的沟通，以便通过这些学科之间的新颖互动来推进组织科学。 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。 目标是通过理论和研究进展的交流来推进组织科学，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，多个学科的领导者将分享论文和演示文稿，他们对组织的生产力和创新建模以及对多学科观点的开放性有着共同的兴趣。 这些领域的领导者包括组织心理学、商业、计算机科学和工程学领域的知名教授和系主任、顶级期刊的编辑以及获得资助的活跃学者。 其次，学者们将讨论研究组织成员如何共同努力实现共同目标的新方法论进展，包括如何整合理性决策模型和主观多层次、动态的人类经验。 最后，将举行非正式的分组会议，以鼓励有关演示的跨学科对话，并创造合作机会。 将邀请有相关兴趣的初级学者和研究生参加，以推进下一波组织奖学金。 该研讨会将为建立新颖的理论和研究方法提供独特的机会，从而更真实、更全面地捕捉当今工作场所生产和创新流程的复杂性。