Economics

Organizational Behavior

Case Incident 2

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Group :

Michael Manalsal Jundeo

Eric William Simanjuntak

Gayuh Kurnia Aji

Faculty of Economy

University of Indonesia

There are two ways of using reinforcement - a positive approach and a negative approach. The positive approach focuses on rewarding appropriate behaviour . This increases the likelihood of this behaviour happening again. The negative approach focuses on punishing undesirable behaviours and should lead to a decrease of these behaviours in the future – from Wikipedia, which we agreed

Here’s what we have in the case :

Random drug test. 50 game suspension for a first offense, a 100 game suspension for a second, and a permanent ban from baseball for a third

Why in this case steroids for Baseball Athletes are not good :

- Addiction, health issues. The real thing about sport is to be health, and by using steroids, the athletes are against the important thing.

- Unfair. The steroids can stimulate muscle or body power, compare to other athletes who doesn’t use are very unfair.

- Bad social effects. The athletes are also an icon, that fans getting used to follow stuff from them, and using steroids can be a bad impact to social affect.

Answering case question:

First answer :

It's a variable interval schedule of reinforcement (unknown schedule, random means “no fixed”). Variable because the amount of time in between tests varies, and interval because it has to do with time rather than amounts of time something occurs. Variable schedules are more effective than fixed schedules because the uncertainty about when the event will occur (the drug test) keeps motivation higher and the person is more likely to continue the behavior (in this case, not using drugs) because they don’t know exactly when the event will occur.

Second Answer :

An example of a behavior in a typical organization that supervisors reward but may actually be detrimental to others or to...