Industrial-Organizational Psychology

His field research in industry had a significant impact on industrial and organizational psychology.

Cognitive resource theory (CRT) is a leadership theory of industrial and organisational psychology developed by Fred Fiedler and Joe Garcia in 1987 as a reconceptualisation of the Fiedler contingency model.

Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human work motivation and management.

Expectancy theory (or expectancy theory of motivation) proposes that an individual will behave or act in a certain way because they are motivated to select a specific behavior over others due to what they expect the result of that selected behavior will be.

Douglas Murray McGregor (September 6, 1906, October 1, 1964) was an American management professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and president of Antioch College from 1948 to 1954.

Clayton Paul Alderfer (September 1, 1940 - October 30, 2015) was an American psychologist and consultant known for developing Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs into a framework of three essential categories: existence, relatedness, and growth.

The Nut Island effect describes an organizational behavior phenomenon in which a team of skilled employees becomes isolated from distracted top managers resulting in a catastrophic loss of the ability of the team to perform an important mission.

Pyrrhic defeat theory is the idea that those with the power to change a system benefit from the way it currently works.

Emotional labor is the act of managing one's own emotions and the emotions of others to meet job expectations.

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another.

Abusive supervision is most commonly studied in the context of the workplace, although it can arise in other areas such as in the household and at school.

A psychological contract, a concept developed in contemporary research by organizational scholar Denise Rousseau, represents the mutual beliefs, perceptions, and informal obligations between an employer and an employee.

Parkinson's Law is the title of a satirical essay by the naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson which was published in The Economist in 1955, following the report of the Royal Commission on the Civil Service.

The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues.

Social undermining is the expression of negative emotions directed towards a particular person or negative evaluations of the person as a way to prevent the person from achieving their goals.

Employee silence refers to situations where employees withhold information that might be useful to the organization of which they are a part, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

Job security is the probability that an individual will keep their job; a job with a high level of security is such that a person with the job would have a small chance of losing it.

Victor Harold Vroom (August 9, 1932 - July 26, 2023) was a Canadian psychologist and business school professor at the Yale School of Management.

Loran F. Nordgren is an American professor of psychology who studies the adoption of new ideas and behaviors.

The Hawthorne effect is a type of behavioral reactivity in which individuals modify an aspect of their behavior in response to their awareness of being observed.

Job characteristics theory is a theory of work design.

Queen bee syndrome is a social phenomenon where women in positions of authority or power treat subordinate females worse than males, purely based on gender.

Absenteeism is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation without good reason.

In organisational psychology, the honeymoon-hangover effect describes the relationship between voluntary employee job change and job satisfaction.

According to the Association for Psychological Science, "Locke is the most published organizational psychologist in the history of the field.

Miriam Erez (born 1943) is an Israeli industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologist and management scholar.

Phyllis Tharenou is an Australian organisational psychologist and management scholar whose research has focused on understanding women's career advancement, training and development effectiveness, and professionals' international careers.

Her primary research focus is social psychology, as well as personality psychology and Industrial Organizational Psychology.