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The concept of psychological contract became more popular among researchers starting in the 1990s, [8] but was named decades earlier in 1960 by Chris Argyris.As studies in industrial relations developed and grew more complex, it was revealed that employees are more likely to perform better in certain work environments.
Chris Argyris (July 16, 1923 – November 16, 2013 [1]) was an American business theorist and professor at Yale School of Management and Harvard Business School. Argyris, like Richard Beckhard , Edgar Schein and Warren Bennis , [ citation needed ] is known as a co-founder of organization development , and known for seminal work on learning ...
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Perceived psychological contract violation (PPCV) is a construct that regards employees’ feelings of disappointment (ranging from minor frustration to betrayal) arising from their belief that their organization has broken its psychological contract of work-related promises, [1] and is generally thought to be the organization's contribution to a negative reciprocity dynamic, as employees tend ...
In Intervention Theory and Method Chris Argyris argues that in organization development, effective intervention depends on appropriate and useful knowledge that offers a range of clearly defined choices and that the target should be for as many people as possible to be committed to the option chosen and to feel responsibility for it. Overall ...
The second is Psychological Empowerment which comes from Social Psychological models and is described as psychological perceptions/attitudes of employees about their work and their organizational roles. A study done by Ahmad et al. found support for the relationship between empowerment and job satisfaction and job commitment.
McGrath taught several courses popular among Ph.D. students at the University of Illinois.These included the introductory course, Research Methods in Social Psychology, taken by generations of graduate students; an introductory course to Research Topics in Social Psychology; a recurring seminar on Small Groups; a Professional Problems seminar in which students learned to write grant proposals ...