Essays Tagged: "Douglas McGregor"
Motivation.
e of becoming.SELF ACTAUALIZATIONESTEEMSOCIALSAFTEYPHYSIOLOGICAL2.Mc GREGOR'S THEORY X AND THEORY Y:Douglas McGregor proposed two distinct views of the nature of human beings: a basically negative vie ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Operational Motivation Plan.
needs, esteem needs, and self-actualization needs.2.Theory X and Theory Y - This theory is based on Douglas McGregor's two distinct views of human beings: one basically negative, labeled Theory X, and ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making
Comparison and Contrast on Theory XY and Z
Comparison and Contrast on Theory XY and ZDouglas McGregor suggested that there are two different ways in which we can look at workers attitud ... anagement and motivation from the manager's and organization's perspective.Comparison & ContrastDouglas McGregor tends to categorize people as one type or another: either being unwilling or unmoti ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
A Brief Introduction to Theory X and Y
A Brief Introduction to Theory X and YMcGregor related employee motivation to the style of management. He categorized employee behavior in ... eory Y employees seemed to like work, were eager to please and worked hard on their own initiative. McGregor suggested that employee behavior was the result of the management style.As McGregor maintai ... managers and leaders interact with employees and are a driving factor in policy and decision making.McGregor sees these two theories as two quite separate attitudes. Theory X may not be altogether wro ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Leaders are made or born? it is a look at how leadership qualities come to be if they are acquired in life through learned behavior or if they are born into a person's personality
place.The idea that there is not only one kind of leadership role for someone to take on is held by Douglas McGregor. In his 1960 book The Human Side of Enterprise it is stated that people fall into o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
The X Theory and Y Theory
The X Theory and Y TheoryDouglas McGregor, a social psychologist, introduced us to his famous X-Y Theory in his 1960 book The ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Explain how an understanding of the main theories on leadership can benefit managers of organisations. Assess the difference between leadership and management processes.
of these styles is effective is largely dependent on the work environment, leader and subordinates. Douglas McGregor believed that, ultimately, a manager will most likely choose his leadership style b ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication
Evolution of thoughts in Scientific Management
ual productivity.Two writers who helped advance the human relation movement were Abraham Maslow and Douglas McGregor.In 1943, Maslow advanced a theory suggesting that people are motivated by a hierarc ... the five needs in sequence. They progress step by step from the lowest up to the highest.Meanwhile Douglas McGregor represents Theory X and Theory Y.According to McGregor, managers holding Theory X b ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Description of how managment has developed
environment they would perform better. Developments were made by people such as Hawthorne, Maslow, Douglas McGregor and Chris Argyris. These men all were very focused on psychology, and the effect th ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Empowerment: Theoretical Background and Applications
cipative-stylesettings, espoused in the work of one of the most formative writers in I/Opsychology, Douglas McGregor.McGregor, writing in the early '60's, laid out the traditional "Theory X"organizati ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Motivation
ly about.While Maslow's look at human motivation seems to concentrate on the needs of human beings, Douglas Mcgregor's theory tends to look at the attitudes and assumptions that managers hold on human ... nds to look at the attitudes and assumptions that managers hold on human nature. Published in 1960, Douglas Mcgregor developed two models called Theory X and Theory Y (cited in Huczynski & Buchana ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
How might motivational theories help you, as a Managing Director of a supermarket chain?
icular. As Managing Director of this chain, I would utilize the articles and research undertaken by Douglas McGregor's Theory Y (1960), Frederick Herzberg (1959), Abraham Maslow (1942), Elton Mayo, Ch ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Common Management Theories: Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory and Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y
During the 1950's early management theorist, Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory and Douglas McGregor's Theory X and Theory Y, represented a period in the development of motivation conc ... ne has learned as they have worked their way up the four lower levels of the motivational hierarchy.Douglas McGregor received a Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1935 in Experimental Psychology ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Case Analysis Of The Human Enterprise
Porter put it in his summary of The Human Side of Enterprise, "a set of assumptions about behavior. McGregor, the original author of The Human side of Enterprise, believed in two theories. The first o ... alternative assumptions. All managerial decisions and actions rest on a "personality held theory." McGregor argues that theory Y provides an alternative set of assumptions that are much needed due to ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
What is management?
another member of my group said: “The concept of Theory X and Theory Y, which was described by Douglas McGregor, made me have a clear understanding about managers.” Theory X and Theory Y sug ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication
Management Leader
ore whether the lights were turned up or down.Two factors were set up as having special importance (Douglas Mawson, 1911-1914, p xiv).One was the group atmosphere; the workers shared pleasant social r ... uences on individual productivity. Famous writer who helped advance the human relation movement was Douglas McGregor.Meanwhile Douglas McGregor represents Theory X and Theory Y.According to McGregor, ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication
Implementation of Motivational Theories
why the packaging engineer is weigh down with many tasks. This agrees with Theory Y as proposed by Douglas McGregor who assumed that employee like work, are creative, seek responsibility and can exer ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Approaches to Management and Leadership
o make sure that the right theory is applied to keep the motivation high and conflicts to a minimum.Douglas McGregor separates leadership styles to two groups which he calls 'Theory X' and 'Theory Y'. ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making
Human Resource Management
asing the level of contact with other workers.Based on the theory made by a behavioral scientists - Douglas McGregor & Frederick promoted out job enrichment should, be recognized cause most indivi ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Motivation
ly about.While Mallow's look at human motivation seems to concentrate on the needs of human beings, Douglas McGregor's theory tends to look at the attitudes and assumptions that managers hold on human ... nds to look at the attitudes and assumptions that managers hold on human nature. Published in 1960, Douglas McGregor developed two models called Theory X and Theory Y (cited in Huczynski & Buchana ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy