Discuss at least two strategies U.S. organizations could adopt to be as successful as Japan, especially in relationship to global markets and the behavior of factory managers.
Justify your responses and be sure to correctly cite and reference your sources.
Researchers at Facebook, Cornell University, and the University of California, San Francisco, conducted a massive social-psychological experiment on hundreds of thousands of Facebook users by tinkering with the individual News Feeds—the continuous stream of status updates, photos, and news articles that appear on each user’s Facebook account. Facebook secretly altered the algorithm that determines what content shows up on each user’s News Feed. Some people were shown mostly positive or happy News Feeds; others were shown mostly negative or sadder-than-average News Feeds. Facebook was studying an important psychological phenomenon called “emotional contagion.”
Facebook eventually published its research results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences in June 2014. The researchers working with Facebook claimed to have found evidence of “emotional contagion.” Specifically, by modifying the Facebook News Feed to contain slightly more positive or negative postings, they were able to observe a small but significant effects on users’ posting habits. In particular, if people see lots of positive posts on Facebook, they are marginally more likely to post something positive.
Was this experiment ethical or even legal? Provide evidence to support your thoughts. (See p. 155 from the textbook.)
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