Psychologists and management scholars who studied motivation, group behavior and how people act inside organizations, including the Hawthorne studies, Theory X and Theory Y, the motivator and hygiene theory, expectancy theory, need theory and goal setting. A person belongs here when the cited article ties them to one of these lines of work. It excludes leadership specialists and quality engineers. These scholars asked why people work, how groups form and what makes an organization fit its members, and most of them taught in business schools or university psychology departments.
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Wikipedia, Douglas McGregor
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He has contributed much to the development of the management and motivational theory, and is best known for his Theory X and Theory Y as presented in his book 'The Human Side of Enterprise' (1960), which proposed that manager's individual assumptions about human nature and behavior determined how individual manages
Wikipedia, Elton Mayo
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George Elton Mayo (26 December 1880-7 September 1949) was an Australian-born psychologist, industrial researcher, and organizational theorist.
Wikipedia, Frederick Herzberg
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Frederick Irving Herzberg (April 18, 1923, January 19, 2000) was an American psychologist who became one of the most influential names in business management.
Wikipedia, Victor Vroom
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His primary research was on the expectancy theory of motivation, which attempts to explain why individuals choose to follow certain courses of action and prefer certain goals or outcomes over others in organizations, particularly in decision-making and leadership.
Wikipedia, William Ouchi
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He is the Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizations, Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Chair in Corporate Renewal at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Chris Argyris (Wikipedia)
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Argyris, like Richard Beckhard, Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis, is known as a pioneer of organization development, and known for seminal work on learning organizations.
Wikipedia, Bruce Tuckman
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Bruce Wayne Tuckman (November 24, 1938, March 13, 2016) was an American psychologist and educational researcher known for his theory on group development.
Wikipedia, David McClelland
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David Clarence McClelland (May 20, 1917, March 27, 1998) was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation need theory.
Edwin Locke (Wikipedia)
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Locke (born May 15, 1938) is an American psychologist and a pioneer of goal-setting theory.
Wikipedia, Kurt Lewin
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one of the first to study group dynamics and organizational development
Wikipedia: Jeffrey Pfeffer
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Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Wikipedia: Gerald R. Salancik
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best known for his work with Jeffrey Pfeffer
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