Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.” Management does not put them there. It is a responsibility of management to make it possible for people to recognize and develop these human characteristics for themselves.”

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McGregor Construction Motivation Follow-up 396

LDRLB

MAY 26, 2010

Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s. McGregor felt that companies followed either one or the other approach. For McGregor, Theory X and Y are not different sides of the same coin.

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McGregor Maslow Incentives Motivation 74

CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

It isn’t hard to see how this could apply in the workplace, and that’s just what organizational scholars did, showing that leaders develop different relationships with each subordinate as each party defines their respective roles. The Path-Goal Theory of Leadership was developed in the mid-’70s by Martin G. Evans and Robert J.

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Leadership Contingency Theory Leadership Styles Proposal 131

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2012

In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him. It was also central to how Sam built Circuit City.

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McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8