The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Over the next few decades, leading companies and human performance researchers found that empowering workers to use their heads, hearts, and hands significantly boosted morale and productivity.

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McGregor Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor 101

Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 23, 2023

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

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Hotels McGregor Leadership Styles Ryan 52

Curious Cat

JANUARY 12, 2016

” – Douglas McGregor. Standards should not be forced down from above but rather set by the production workers themselves. blame the process not the person. blame the process not the person. We need to ask, “how did the process allow this to happen?” . – Taiichi Ohno.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2017

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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McGregor How To Brainstorming Micromanagement 11

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. You cannot manage a workforce by computer.

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McGregor Human Resources Retail Taylorism 8

CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

Spencer believed that even those predisposed to leadership couldn’t emerge as influential figures without the help of social conditions outside of their control, and that great leaders were more the products of their environments than any particular inborn talents.

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Leadership Contingency Theory Leadership Styles Proposal 131

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

This method of management may well be fueled by Douglas McGregor’s “Theory X” mentality in which a leader has little faith that those they lead are capable of being productive and contributing members of the organization. Dr. Deming’s belief that systems must be managed is as appropriate today as ever.

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