Beginnings of occupational psychology

摘要

I share Pauline Willis' sadness at the death of J. Richard Hackman (Letters, April 2013). Building on the ground-breaking work of Vroom (Work and Motivation, 1964) and joining Porter and Lawler he helped cultivate the field of work motivation, a field woefully barren before their work, unless you count Maslow and his needs or McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y.