Karl Nagra Karl Nagra Lecturers Name: Graham Orr Management & eBusiness Due Date: 27 April 2012 McGregor’s XY Theory In 1960‚ American social psychiatrist‚ Douglas McGregor wrote a book titled ‘The Human Side Of Enterprise’. It was in this book that McGregor first proposed his famous XY theory. McGregor’s XY Theory is a type of motivational management. McGregor’s theory is incredibly simple yet effective. Most of the fundamental elements of the XY Theory rely solely on how the manager views their
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Theory X and Theory Y was an idea devised by Douglas McGregor in his 1960 book “The Human Side of Enterprise”. It encapsulated a fundamental distinction between management styles and has formed the basis for much subsequent writing on the subject (Economist. 2015) The theories look at how a manager’s perceptions of what motivate his or her team members affect the way he or she behaves. By understanding how your assumptions about employees’ motivation can influence your management style‚ you can adapt
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Executive Summary The history of organization development is rich with the contributions of behavioral scientists and practitioners‚ many of whom are well known‚ as well as the contributions of many people in client organizations. Even if we were aware of all the significant contributors‚ which we are not‚ we could not do justice to the richness of this history in a short essay. Systematic organization development activities have a recent history and‚ to use the analogy of a mangrove tree‚ have
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Chapter 1 Introduction Background to the study A motivated employee works hard and effectively because of the satisfactory feeling of fulfillment. In business management‚ motivation is an important research field. Over the years‚ there have been many motivation theories developed. One of the most famous theories is on the basis of Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow (1954) argued that individuals have a hierarchy of needs‚ and true motivation is achieved by fulfilling higher level of needs
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Motivation is the process of stimulating people to act in ways which serve the needs of the organization providing the stimulus. Simply put‚ motivation is discovering and applying whatever is needed to get the employee to carry out designated activities in specified ways. However‚ a clear distinction is made between attitude‚ which is a state of mind‚ and behavior‚ which is a state of action. A milestone in the relationship between the behavioral scientist and the manager was the "Hawthorne Experiments"
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run an organization. Behavioral Management came into existence when managers observed and realized that human behavior has a great importance and a significant impact on the actions of workers. People like Mary Parker Follett‚ Elton Mayo‚ Douglas Mcgregor‚ and Chester Barnard were all in a sense analysts in the behavioral management realm and came up with theories or conclusions about what happens when a manager does certain things‚ or what the outcomes are for certain behaviors within the organization
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motivation‚ created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s‚ that have been used in human resource management‚ organizational behavior‚ organizational communication and organizational development. They describe two contrasting models of workforce motivation. Theory X and Theory Y have to do with the perceptions managers hold of their employees‚ which then influence their management style. Contents [hide] 1 Theory X of McGregor 2 Theory Y 3 Theory X and Theory
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Critically evaluate McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. How far is it applicable to management and employee motivation in contemporary Chinese organizations? In the modern corporation environment‚ employees’ motivation plays a pivotal role‚ thus they should be recognised as a significant part of corporations’ financial assets. There are several distinct viewpoints of approaches to managerial strategies about motivating employees‚ one of which is McGregor’s Theory X and Theory Y. It proposes that
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an organisation. The most generally held analysis or presumptions are enumerated below. Though the following theories do not all arrive at the same conclusions; some of these theories are as follows; Þ Abraham Maslow – Hierarchy of Needs. Þ Douglas McGregor - Theory X And Y Þ Fredrick Herzberg – Two Factor Theory Þ Elton Mayor - Human Relation School of thought Þ Fredrick Winslow Taylor - Theory of Scientific Management Money as said is an important factor in motivating workers today‚ more so
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have been identified (Mondy‚ Shaplin and Premeaux‚ 1991‚ cited on humankinetics.com‚ 2013) are autocratic‚ democratic‚ participative and laissez-faire. In line with the way if managing subordinates‚ I would also link them to theory of “X and Y” (Douglas McGregor‚ 1960‚ cited on humankinetics.com‚ 2013). This theory is a description of two types of employee motivation. Theory X states that the average person dislike work and would more likely avoid it. Therefore‚ to achieve organisational objectives
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