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The purpose of this chapter is to discuss organizational psychology in the mid-twentieth century Britain. This chapter explores why organizational psychology flourished between 1940 and 1970 by tracing the influence of war, social, and cultural factors that made organizations more receptive to the efforts of psychologists to extend their expertise and professionalize the field. It focuses on the work of psychologists for the British military and the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, which was the most notable group applying psychological theories and methods to the study of organizations in Britain at the time.
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White, A. (2020). Organizational Psychology’s Golden Age, 1940–1970. In: Muldoon, J., Gould, A., McMurray, A. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Management History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62348-1_35-1
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