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Management science fundamentally cannot be science. There’s nothing isolatable or replicable in humans in the workplace (or outside for that matter).

The best you can do is apply statistical approaches to arbitrary abstractions, and the main thing we learn when we do that is that return to the mean is the only thing we can really be sure of?

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Alasdair Macintyre has a good chapter on this in After Virtue.

> There’s nothing isolatable or replicable in humans in the workplace

That needs proof

While nothing might be too strong a statement, several studies have shown things like changing the light level in an office increases productivity - it doesn't matter what your started with or end up with. Given this how can you study the optimal light level in an office?

i think you already solved it, the optimal level is "fluctuating"

(btw thanks for the tip! i work at home and will use that)

What I assume is being referred to is the Hawthorne Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect

I admit that I was aware of the original interpretation but not the novelty/disruption effect.

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