Organizational behavior unchained: Commentary on giving peace a chance

摘要

Wow! Gretchen Spreitzer is revolutionary. She proposes that corporate employee empowerment can lead to greater peace and less war. She takes us far beyond organizational behavior's well-studied dependent variables of employee performance, affect, and cognitions, and develops a well-argued case for how employees' organizational empowerment provides the training and confidence needed to peaceably settle disputes. Further, she introduces organizational behavior scholars to some valuable publicly available data resources. This paper, like all the best social science, raises interesting questions that provoke us to ponder and explore new questions. I will address just two of the questions this essay raises: questions of our assumptions about causality in organizational behavior, and our choices of problems to study.