We’re not in a factory. We’re not in a production line anymore. We’re in a place where we expect people to be flexible, to be creative, to be motivated. So if you want people to be that way, treat them that way. Don’t treat them like they’re factory workers.
Jean-Nicolas Reyt is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour at McGill University in the Desautels Faculty of Management who specializes in Organizational Behaviour and Negotiation. He received a PhD in Management from Paris-Dauphine University in France. Before beginning at McGill, he was a visiting scholar at New York University. He has been published in many of the top management journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and the Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior. His research is focused on the relationship between distance and important work outcomes, and he is the founder of Distances in Organizations, a series of workshops that aim to explore concepts such as the social distance between employees (e.g. power, culture), spatial distance in work teams (e.g. distributed teams, mobile work) and temporal distances in work (e.g. goals, deadlines).
Dr. Brooke Struck is the Research Director at The Decision Lab. He is an internationally recognized voice in applied behavioural science, representing TDL’s work in outlets such as Forbes, Vox, Huffington Post and Bloomberg, as well as Canadian venues such as the Globe & Mail, CBC and Global Media. Dr. Struck hosts TDL’s podcast “The Decision Corner” and speaks regularly to practicing professionals in industries from finance to health & wellbeing to tech & AI.
In this episode of The Decision Corner, Brooke sits down with the Chief Behavioural Scientist at Barclays, Peter Brooks.
Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Social Justice expert, joins Brooke to discuss about empathy and putting people back into decision-making
Ryan Stelzer joins Brooke to discuss the importance of humanizing the workplace, psychological safety, and ditching a numbers-only approach.
In this podcast episode, we discuss the science behind healthcare products, how we can improve engagement and adherence to our health and developing a regulating body to ensure that behavioural science is applied ethically.
