Posts Tagged ‘psychology’
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Leadership and Adversities
Author: Future Manager Research Center Regardless of working conditions, whether favourable or unfavourable, a good leader always tries to give his best. Aware of the possible unforeseen events and complications that could arise during his professional career, the one who lead the ranks of a company is also fully capable of reacting to situations beyond…
Read MoreMcGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y
Author: Future Manager Research Center In 1960 at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the american psychologist Douglas McGregor defined two contrasting assumptions about the nature of humans in the workplace. These are two motivational theories of human resources that explain how employees develop their productivity on a daily basis. The two models proposed by…
Read MoreMaslow’s Pyramid of Needs
Author: Future Manager Research Center Economic science is the allocation of limited resources according to the infinite needs, motivations and expectations of individuals. But, how do you define needs? In 1954, the American psychologist Abraham Harold Maslow formulated a pyramid of needs. It is a motivational model of human development based on a “hierarchy of…
Read MorePeter and Dilbert’s Principles
Author: Future Manager Research Center Laurence Peter, a Canadian psychologist active in the 1960s, has the merit of having formulated the so-called “Peter principle”, also known as the “incompetence principle”. Peter had set out to give his own interpretation of the mechanisms that regulate the corporate careers of workers, all embroidered with a good dose…
Read MoreImposter Syndrome: most of us are affected
Author: Future Manager Research Center It is not that common to hear about the Imposter Syndrome, and when you here about it is not immediate the connection with the working environment. However, even if we have never given it a name, everybody has had, at least for a moment the Imposter Syndrome. Still, what is…
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