Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,0, London School of Economics (The London School of Economics & Political Science), course: Organisationspsychologie, language: English, abstract: This study aims to show that situational cues like semantic primes are able to influence a participantʼs decision-making in the context of taking credit for someone elseʼs idea at the workplace. In a laboratory experiment either a competitive, cooperative or neutral environment was simulated by using subliminal...
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,0, London School of Ec...
With increasing importance of knowledge, ideas more and more pose a competitive advantage for workers who have ideas over those who don't. Based on your ideas you can either excel in your career, increase your annual bonus or lose your job if you do not have any. Being caught up in a competitive struggle with your colleagues you do things you would not normally do - like stealing a co-worker's idea to use it to your own means. This book aims to provide you with further insights into the pressures on today's knowledge worker in an "up-or-out" working environment. Those insights are based on a...
With increasing importance of knowledge, ideas more and more pose a competitive advantage for workers who have ideas over those who don't. Based on yo...