Over recent years, there has been a growing academic interest in the history of psychological disciplines and mental health in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. This article explores psychological sciences and social planning in post-Stalinist Hungary after 1956. The focus is on the psychology of work as a socially- and historically-situated discourse. The article demonstrates how psychologists started to promote their expertise to reform the practices of management and to “humanize” the conditions of work. They suggested practical remedies for everyday problems of worker motivation and social adjustment and introduced concepts from social psychology to improve the state of interpersonal relations at the workplace. The study argues that the workplace was a particular context in which a post-Stalinist reassessment of the government's ideology was acted out. To elaborate this more fully, both published texts and archival materials are analyzed in the framework of the governmentality thesis, as developed by Nikolas Rose. In this context, the concept of the “human factor” crystallized different but reconcilable interests between psychology experts and party politicians.

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后斯大林时期匈牙利劳动力的心理学和管理

近年来，苏联和东欧的心理学学科史和心理健康史引起了越来越多的学术兴趣。本文探讨了 1956 年后匈牙利后斯大林时代的心理科学和社会规划。重点是工作心理学作为一种社会和历史情境的话语。这篇文章展示了心理学家如何开始提升他们的专业知识来改革管理实践和“人性化”工作条件。他们为员工动机和社会适应的日常问题提出了切实可行的补救措施，并引入了社会心理学的概念，以改善工作场所的人际关系状况。该研究认为，工作场所是后斯大林主义重新评估政府的特殊背景。的意识形态被付诸实施。为了更全面地阐述这一点，出版的文本和档案材料都在尼古拉斯·罗斯（Nikolas Rose）提出的治理论的框架内进行了分析。在这种背景下，“人为因素”的概念具体化了心理学专家和政党政治家之间不同但又可以调和的利益。