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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. The planning session centered on processes, metrics, and systems. This human relations movement focused on the psychological and social needs of workers.

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CMI Highlights – 23 August

Chartered Management Institute

The hotels are in the process of recruiting apprentices to join these programmes and all the vacancies are currently advertised on the UCAS website. You’ll find more fresh content on CMI Insights this week to help you drive delivery: Is your team engaging in “productivity theatre”? Interested? Or know someone who would be?

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Most Popular Management and Leadership Quotes on Our Site in 2015

Curious Cat

” – Douglas McGregor. blame the process not the person. We need to ask, “how did the process allow this to happen?” . – Taiichi Ohno. The answer to the question managers so often ask of behavioral scientists “How do you motivate people?” ” is, “You don’t.”

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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

At RapidBI we use many management and leadership models and through the process of using them we have developed a library of 100?s. McGregor Theory X Y. Leadership and Management Models Download PowerPoint Slides – page 2a. Please note many of the models on the slides are copyright – please use appropriately. Managing Risk.

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How to Get an Employee to Work Faster

Harvard Business Review

A slower worker doesn’t just reduce a team’s productivity — he can also hurt his colleagues’ morale, says Lindsay McGregor, the coauthor of Primed to Perform and co-founder of Vega Factor. “Start with assuming positive intent,” says McGregor. What the Experts Say.

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What Circuit City Learned About Valuing Employees

Harvard Business Review

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.