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An Empirical Test of a Free-Will Centered, Phenomenological Approach to Organizational Behavior Education: Working Paper Series--97-04

McKnight, Melvin R. (1997) An Empirical Test of a Free-Will Centered, Phenomenological Approach to Organizational Behavior Education: Working Paper Series--97-04. Working Paper. NAU W.A. Franke College of Business.

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Abstract

This paper presents the initial validation of a Free-will Centered, Phenomenological Approach to Organizational Behavior Education. This approach is based on a subjective science which operates in a subjective truth system. This truth is a truth of value--of what is truly valuable for the quality of human experience. The theory predicts that a classroom aimed at teaching such knowledge would result in students moving in the direction of becoming self-actualizing persons, and this paper summarizes a test of the validity of this prediction. Specifically a group of college seniors was exposed to the theory and suitable pre, post and six-month follow-up measures were taken to determine the effect (if any) of the experience upon them. In general, the prediction that learning the theory would result in movement toward being a self-actualizing person was found to be valid. Thus, we can, in a course in organizational behavior, actually help students become healthier human beings, and, presumably also, then, better managers and leaders.

Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
Publisher’s Statement: Copyright, where appropriate, is held by the author.
ID number or DOI: 97-04
Keywords: Working paper, business education, self-actualization
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status: Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit: The W.A. Franke College of Business
Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2016 19:36
URI: http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/1655

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