The Ethics of Organizational Behavior Management

ABSTRACT

Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) is a sub-discipline of applied behavior analysis that focuses on organizational improvement and the performance of employees and leaders. OBM practitioners work to apply behavior analysis to help get results through teamwork, collaboration, high practice standards, and professionalism. There are a number of ways to get business results, but OBM aims to get results by supporting the most important asset in any system: the people. The purpose of this paper is to show the value of ethical standards to those practicing within the field of OBM, the current state of OBM regulation, and offer a call to action for OBM practitioners to maintain ethical standards.

KEYWORDS:

• Ethics
• OBM
• regulation
• leadership
• licensure

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

Notes

1. A more comprehensive review of the BACB ethics code applied to OBM will be available in the book Applying Ethics to Organizational Behavior Management: Getting Results the Right Way, available through Routledge Taylor & Francis Group 2022.