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.”

McGregor 396

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. In Theory X, management assumes employees are inherently lazy, dislike work and will avoid it if they can.

McGregor 74

McGregor Maslow Incentives Motivation 74

CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Fiedler developed the Least Preferred Coworker Scale as a way to determine which managers would be the best fit for a leadership assignment. These include: listening, empathy, healing, awareness, persuasion, conceptualization, foresight, stewardship, commitment to growth, and commitment to building a community.

Leadership 131

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.

McGregor 8

McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2012

Yet two recent and excellent books ( Inside Apple , by Adam Lashinsky and Steve Jobs by Walter Issacson) describe a management style that was disturbingly harsh. Before answering that question, it is useful to elaborate the two management styles. What are the common success characteristics shared by these two?

McGregor 14

McGregor Micromanagement Leadership Performance Review 14