Providing structural components of Behavioral Insight Unit (BIT) through the application of a comparative study of government BIT

Mahsa, Mahsa; Mohammadi, Fahime; Abdolhamid, Mahdi

Providing structural components of Behavioral Insight Unit (BIT) through the application of a comparative study of government BIT

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mahsa Mahsa ¹

Fahime Mohammadi ²

Mahdi Abdolhamid ³

¹ PHD Candidate of Management of Iranian Government Organizations - Decision Making and Policy Making, School of management, economics and progress engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

² PHD Candidate of Science and Technology policy, School of management, economics and progress engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

³ Department of Progress Engineering,, School of Management,, Economics and Progress Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Good and efficient decisions are the core of legislation and public policy design and have a high impact on the behavior of humans and communities, which is one of the most important areas of policy makers' attention. For achieving this purpose, nowadays behavioral sciences are being used in the field of policy making, which has caused the formation of behavioral insight units in different countries. In this research, the selected behavioral insight institutions in the government level and international institutions are analyzed according to different aspects using the comparative study method and content analysis, and the result is a framework of the basic characteristics of the behavioral insight units. The key aspects identified for behavioral insight units in this research are: the goals and missions, the expertise working in the behavioral insight units and the way of employing these experts, the activities, the way of funding and the structure of the behavioral insight units. Ten selected behavioral insight organizations have been studied and analyzed according to the mentioned aspects in this research.

Keywords

Behavioral Insight Unit

Comparative study

Behavioral Public Policy (BPP)

Policy making

Decision making