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Social Science Clinic => Business => Management => Topic started by: haleyc112 on May 20, 2019
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In a short essay, explain how managers can shape behavior using positive and negative reinforcement.
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There are four ways to shape behavior: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment, and extinction. When a behavior is followed by some kind of reward, such as when a manager praises an employee for a job well done, it's called positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement will increase the likelihood of the desired behavior being repeated.
Rewarding a response with the elimination or withdrawal of something unpleasant is called negative reinforcement. A manager who promises to cancel a "no Internet during work" restriction as a reward for increased production is using negative reinforcement. The manager is removing something unpleasant (the restriction) as a reward for desired behavior–increased production.
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