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When Deming Goes to School

Deming Institute

There is a big shift in thinking from thinking that a manager must motivate people to thinking a manager needs to remove the barriers to people’s intrinsic motivation (this of course was explained by Douglas McGregor in 1960 with theory x and theory y thinking in his book The Human Side of Enterprise).

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leadership and management models download- page 2a

Rapid BI

This set can be used by managers, leaders, trainers, educators and students to help communicate key points, theories and ideas to others. Unlike other providers of powerpoint slides these are high quality graphical based slides, and fully editable & brandable. McGregor Theory X Y. Almost every model you will ever need.

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14 Leadership Studies – Quick Overview of Leadership

CO2

There’s been a fair amount of research in this area, with academics discovering that these individual theories change over time in response to experience, education, and social influences and that they can be shaped by our outside beliefs, values, and personality traits. TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORY.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

The focus was wholly on execution of mass production, and managerial solutions such as specialization of labor, standardized processes, quality control, workflow planning, and rudimentary accounting were brought to bear. Douglas McGregor’s “Theory Y” is representative of the genre.