Neuroscience in the Workplace Good Science or Psychobabble?
Prof Patricia Riddell
Questions: Does neuroscience support interventions to improve workplace behaviour? Can neuroscience help us understand workplace behaviour? Can understanding neuroscience offer new insight into changing workplace behaviour?
Does neuroscience support interventions to improve workplace behaviour? “Research shows that emphasizing compassion for hopes and dreams during coaching activates the parasympathetic nervous system and therefore enhances behavioural change By comparison, focussing on weaknesses during coaching activates the sympathetic nervous system and therefore does not lead to sustained behavioural change�
What would you need to know to accept this proposition?
Does neuroscience support interventions to improve workplace behaviour?
Does neuroscience support interventions to improve workplace behaviour?
Does neuroscience support interventions to improve workplace behaviour?
Does neuroscience support interventions to improve workplace behaviour?
Does neuroscience support interventions to improve workplace behaviour? “Research shows that emphasizing compassion for hopes and dreams during coaching activates the parasympathetic nervous system and therefore enhances behavioural change By comparison, focussing on weaknesses during coaching activates the sympathetic nervous system and therefore does not lead to sustained behavioural change�
Are you convinced?
Can neuroscience help us understand workplace behaviour? Cingulate Cortex Frontal Cortex
Frontal Cortex Prefrontal Cortex
Prefrontal Cortex
Parietal Cortex
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Ventral Striatum
Occipital Cortex Temporal Cortex
Hippocampus Cerebellum Brain Stem
Amygdala
Can neuroscience help us understand workplace behaviour?
Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex
Ventral Striatum 10
The Triadic Brain Ernst, Pine & Hardin, 2006
Amygdala
Can understanding neuroscience offer new insight into changing workplace behaviour? Dendritic Tree
Receives information
Cell Body
Power House
Axon with Myelin Sheath Synaptic Terminals
Transmits information
Passes information on
Can understanding neuroscience offer new insight into changing workplace behaviour?
Questions: Does neuroscience support interventions to improve workplace behaviour?
Not Yet
Can neuroscience help us understand workplace behaviour?
Yes
Can understanding neuroscience offer new insight into changing workplace behaviour?
Yes