#320 Max Beilby: Evolutionary Organizational Psychology
RECORDED ON JANUARY 29th, 2020.
Max Beilby is a Management and Organizational Psychologist and author of the Darwinian Business blog. He’s currently working as a practitioner in the banking industry.
In this episode, we talk about the application of Evolutionary Psychology to Organizational Psychology. We start by tackling the concept of evolutionary mismatch, and then go through some examples of it that apply to the modern workplace, like Dunbar’s number, leadership and hierarchy, overconfidence, and dissatisfaction, stress, and burnout. We also refer to sex differences and if they have any implications in the workplace. Finally, we discuss possible solutions coming from the knowledge we already have and refer to cultural evolution.
Time Links:
Evolutionary mismatch in the modern workplace
Dunbar’s number (150) and the number of people we can effectively deal with
Understanding our decision-making
Leadership and hierarchy systems
Incompetent leaders, and the phenomenon of overconfidence
Dissatisfaction, stress, and burnout in the workplace
Sex differences and the workplace
Possible solutions to problems in the workplace
The power of cultural evolution
Follow Max’s work!
Follow Max’s work:
Darwinian Business blog: http://bit.ly/2pzxVGP
The Evolution Institute: http://bit.ly/2uJmiPs
The View of Life magazine: http://bit.ly/2GzKN4w
This View of Business: http://bit.ly/2GwYOA3
Applied Evolutionary Psychology Society: http://bit.ly/2YPdEwm
Evolutionary Psychology in the Business Sciences: https://amzn.to/3aRiH2z
The Biological Foundations of Organizational Behavior: https://amzn.to/2RCHTT1