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In "The Human Side of Enterprise", originally published in 1960, Douglas McGregor, a Harvard academic, divided management styles into Theory X and Theory Y. Theory X was the classic command-and-control type of management, the authoritarian style which (McGregor wrote) "reflects an underlying belief that management must counteract an inherent human tendency to avoid work".
"Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience," by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi "The Handbook of Self-Determination Research," by Edward Deci and Richard M. Ryan "Self-theories: Their Role in Motivation, Personality, and Development," by Carol Dweck "The Human Side of Enterprise," by Douglas McGregor What do you hope members of this book club will take away from your book?
The idea that there are two distinct management styles, the authoritarian style and the participative style—"Theory X" and "Theory Y developed by Douglas McGregor in "The Human Side of Enterprise" 40 years ago was influential in corporate America long after the author's early death.
The reality is we've been a northern punchbag in this parliament and when people in my constituency won't open a shop because the business rates are three times more than the rent then you know ministers are not on the side of enterprise.
Go back to 1960: Douglas McGregor's The Human Side of Enterprise talked about Theory X and Theory Y. Theory X was that workers were like mules and needed domination and constant goading.
ONLY ONE RIGHT WAY? Douglas McGregor's book, The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), asserted that managements have to choose between two and only two different ways of managing people "Theory X" and "Theory Y".
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