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Control Theory
Long ago, careful observers of humans and other organisms noticed that certain variables that should vary as environmental conditions changed actually did not vary much within the organism. For example, shelves remain stocked despite customers buying products. Control theory arose as one explanation for the mechanism that keeps variables, like stocks, stable. Industrial and organizational (I-O) psychologists have come to find the explanation provided by control theory to be useful for conceptualizing and understanding a great deal of work-related phenomena.
The specific mechanism described by control theorists contains three parts:
- A function translates the state of some variable (e.g., state of stock on shelves) into a perception or signal that can be compared with a desired perception or reference signal (e.g., fully stocked) represented within the organism.
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- Volunteer Management
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- Motivation and Job Design
- Action Regulation Theory
- Action–State Orientation
- Approach–Avoidance Motivation and Regulatory Focus
- Control Theory
- Employee and Leader Self-Talk
- Empowerment
- Equity Theory
- Expectancy Theory of Work Motivation
- Gamification at Work
- Goal Orientation
- Goal-Setting Theory
- Human–Computer Interaction
- Incentives
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Work Motivation
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- Two-Factor Theory
- Work Motivation
- Organizational Climate and Culture
- Organizational Success, Structure, Design, and Change
- Automation/Advanced Manufacturing Technology/Computer-Based Integrated Technology
- Balanced Scorecard
- Dispositional Resistance to Change
- Downsizing
- Furloughs
- High-Performance Organization Model
- High-Reliability Organizations
- Institutional Theory
- Knowledge Management
- Learning Organizations
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Alliances
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- Organizational Behavior Management
- Organizational Change
- Organizational Change, Resistance to
- Organizational Communication, Formal
- Organizational Communication, Informal
- Organizational Development
- Organizational Image
- Organizational Structure
- Outsourcing and Temporary Work
- Sociotechnical Approach
- Strategic Planning
- Survivor Syndrome
- Theory of Action
- Total Quality Management
- Virtual Organizations
- Productive Employee Behavior and Performance
- Careers, Identity, and Work–Life Issues
- A Career in I-O Psychology
- Becoming and Being an I-O Psychologist
- Academic Careers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Careers for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists
- Funding Sources for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Research
- Practice Careers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology: External Consulting Roles
- Practice Careers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Internal Roles
- Preparing for Academic Careers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Preparing for Careers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Practice
- Scientist–Practitioner Model
- Succeeding in Academic Careers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Succeeding in Careers in Industrial and Organizational Psychology Practice
- Tips for Applying to Industrial and Organizational Psychology Graduate School
- Tips for Creating a Consulting Practice
- Tips for Getting an Internship
- Professional Organizations and Journals for I-O Psychologists
- Journal of Applied Psychology
- Personnel Psychology
- Academy of Management
- Alliance for Organizational Psychology
- American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science
- European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology
- Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
- Industrial and Organizational Psychology Journals
- International Association of Applied Psychology
- Society for Human Resource Management
- Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- Becoming and Being an I-O Psychologist
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