Influential Article Review - Theoretical Grounds for The Study Of Psychology in the Context of Organizations

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This paper examines psychology. We present insights from a highly influential paper. Here are the highlights from this paper: This article provides an introduction to evolutionary psychology and its relevance to organizational design theory and practice. Evolutionary psychology assumes that human nature reflect adaptations to an ancestral environment that was intensely social, but differed profoundly from modern organizations in scale and complexity. Further, organizational structures and cultures co-evolved with human nature to deal with the different environmental challenges early humans faced. In this article, I present a concise review of the theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychology and convey how evolutionary psychology hypotheses about organizational design, culture, and leadership in organizations can be developed and tested. I also provide some directions for future research in this area and discuss implications for designing organizations that are perhaps better aligned with human nature than current structures. For our overseas readers, we then present the insights from this paper in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German.