Money and Journal of Organizational Behavior Management Interventions: A Review

Abstract

Practitioners and business leaders can use monetary data to quantify the financial outcomes of interventions in organizational behavior management (OBM). The primary purpose of this review was to investigate the occurrence and classification of monetary data in the OBM literature. Other purposes were to demonstrate ways in which such data contribute to the measurement of value and to provide recommendations for its reporting and publication. Accordingly, a review was conducted of publications in the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management. Cumulative yearly results showed that cost data were reported more often than cost plus benefit data, and cost plus benefit data were reported more often than benefit data alone. More cost than benefit data were reported, most often with social validity, followed by institutionalization, then maintenance measures. However, more cost plus benefit data were reported than either cost or benefit data with a maintenance measure. It is concluded that reporting cost and benefit data would be beneficial to the field of OBM.

Keywords:

• cost data
• benefit data
• monetary data
• institutionalization
• social validity
• maintenance

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Dr. Jeanne Wendel, Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Reno, for her collaboration regarding the economics material discussed in this article.

Notes

¹Within the field of economics, the literature on monetary analyses is voluminous and well beyond the scope of this review. The interested reader is directed to an introductory text on the subject by Zerbe and Bellas (2006).

²After the two authors coded each article in the present study, instances of disagreement were reexamined more thoroughly. In almost every case, the disagreement was the result of one or in some cases both authors missing the cost or benefit data placed in different parts of studies.