How Do We Know?

This activity is important because as a manager, it is important to not only understand what we know about organizational behavior, but also how we know it$.$ Over the past several decades, researchers have learned a great deal about organizational behavior topics and the ultimate impact of these issues on company performance. Where did the knowledge about these topics come from? In many ways, the way we know about organizational behavior is not very different than the way we know anything else in life.

The goal of this activity is to demonstrate your knowledge about the four methods of knowing. The following descriptions are work events that will each match to a method of knowing.

Read the following examples of the ways we may know or learn about things and then classify them as one of the four methods of knowing. Drag and drop each example into its appropriate box; there is one example per box.

Employee Satisfaction

Unusually Quiet

Arrive Early, Leave Late

Copier Jam

Method of Authority

Method of Science

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