The need for assessment of maintaining variables in OBM

Conducting a functional assessment and/or analysis of the variable(s) maint aining problem behavior has become best practice in applied behavior analys is, yet neither scientists nor practitioners of OEM report engaging in such behavior in a formal manner. Before offering a model from which organizati onal functional assessment measures could be based and anecdotes from an ac tual organizational case in which such an approach was utilized, the author s describe three forms of functional assessment used in applied behavior an alysis and explain three potential reasons why OEM has not yet adopted the use of such techniques.