DOUGLAS mCGREGORS X Y THEORY

Douglas McGregor (1906-1964) was an industrial management professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1960's. He was also at one time, the president of Antioch College in Ohio. McGregor believed that the management thinking concepts that were being used at the time were put into place long ago to meet the needs of a more feudal society. In his time, Douglas McGregor felt that the world was changing, and that it was time for new thinking. His ideas about managerial behavior had a great effect on management thinking and practice.

Some of McGregors ideas were strongly influenced in part by Abraham Maslow's need satisfaction model of motivation. His hierarchy of needs is based on the idea that motivation comes from need. "Needs provide the driving force motivating behavior and general orientation. Maslow's ideas suggested that worker disaffection with work was due-not to something intrinsic to workers, but due to poor job design, managerial behavior and too few opportunities for job satisfaction." (www.newgrange). Maslow's hierarchy of needs showed the basic needs to be; physiological needs (basic survival needs including food, water, and shelter), and t

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