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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

In 1960, MIT management professor, Douglas McGregor’s book, The Human Side of Enterprise, outlined the opposing motivational approaches of Theory X and Theory Y. This human relations movement focused on the psychological and social needs of workers. The division leader’s new boss came from head office to join our session. .”

McGregor 101
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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. With the rise of the industrial revolution, that changed. The mid-twentieth century was a period of remarkable growth in theories of management, and in the guru-industrial complex.