Information pathology

Information pathology is a collective term in industrial psychology for various aspects that can fail in the generation, exchange and use of information , with the consequence that decisions are made on the basis of inadequate information.

The quality of information and communication is examined under this heading in industrial psychology. A distinction is essentially made between individual information pathology due to insufficient basic knowledge or operational blindness of an employee, interaction-related information pathology due to limited exchange of opinions or incomprehension between specialists and knowledge-related information pathology due to naive realism or the overemphasis on facts and quantitative statements. In summary, communication errors can be analyzed and subsequently avoided with this model.

Web links

• Astrid Selke: Information management in rapidly growing companies (PDF file; 1.19 MB)