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Abraham Maslow
Developed the 5 Hierarchy of needs from his work as a clinical psychologist and analyses of great people such as Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. -
Douglas McGregor
The Human Side of Enterprise discusses McGregor's two theories on motivational psychology. Theory X is the "human-is-bad" thesis, where Theory Y is the philosophy that the "human-is-good." -
Henry Knowles and Borje Saxberg
Created machine theory and summarized in in the six principles of Frederick Taylor's scientific management. -
Fred Luthans
Translated Maslow's hierarchy of needs into a content model of work motivation. He proposes a hierarchial relationship among organizational needs.